Born on Ketchikan Island, Alaska, Bonnie Joy Bardos grew up in North Carolina and attended Wingate College in Wingate, North Carolina, along with taking courses in watercolor, pen/ink drawing, and oil painting with CPCC; and taken art workshops/classes with Patricia Cole-Ferullo, Dale McEntire; Mike LaLone, Lalage Warrington, Libby Johnson at Arrowmont Craft School in Gatlinburg, Tennessee; and Mike Stiler on Monhegan Island, Maine. She often incorporates verses of her poetry or phrases in paintings, which have been in juried shows through out the region. Currently, her Esto Perpetua landscape series is...more
