Bonnie Hedden Hurst
Artist, mom, sometimes writer exploring creativity and the power of vulnerability
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New Works: Store Up, Insight, Morning Light
Posted on April 8, 2022 Leave a Comment
New Abstract Artwork: I love the vertical look of these – like water gently flowing. These have resin over the blue – stunning in person. You can find this piece at the Four Seasons Gallery in Homewood
New Work: Isn’t it funny?
Posted on April 7, 2022 Leave a Comment
This piece is one of the few that I have done without resin – it is just dreamy! You can find this piece at the Four Seasons Gallery in Homewood Find Four Seasons on Instagram and Facebook @Four_Seasons_Gallery
New Work: Expectations
Posted on April 6, 2022 Leave a Comment
This is my first piece using green instead of blue – it has a more earthy feel and I love it! The resin is poured on top of the color, making a beautiful shine in contrast with the matte finish of the texture. Makes you just want to reach out and touch it! You can […]
New small pieces
Posted on February 28, 2022 Leave a Comment
Completed a few 5×5 and 6×6 this weekend. These are so much fun! And they look really cool arranged in a collage.
Trimalchio
Posted on February 15, 2022 Leave a Comment
“These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire – I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ups and Downs
Posted on February 13, 2022 Leave a Comment
12×12 Heavily textured base, acrylic paint, resin, pieces of The Great Gatsby
Words Bridge
Posted on February 12, 2022 Leave a Comment
12×12 Heavily textured base, acrylic paint, resin, pieces of The Great Gatsby
Stacked pieces
Posted on February 9, 2022 Leave a Comment
I love these 3 pieces stacked to make a new work. They are all available at Kathleen’s in Decatur! Each measures 12×36.
Words
Posted on January 30, 2022 1 Comment
Words “All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.” – Ernest Hemingway
New Work: We have such fun
Posted on January 6, 2022 Leave a Comment
“Oh, let’s have fun.” she begged him. “It’s too hot to fuss.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Heavily textured base, acrylic, resin, coffee dyed pieces of book pages
New Work: Converge
Posted on January 4, 2022 Leave a Comment
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.” -Norman Maclean Heavily textured, acrylic, pen and ink, resin
New Work: Invisible Strings
Posted on January 2, 2022 Leave a Comment
“I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald Acrylic on a heavily textured surface, jewelry wire, gold leaf
New Work: Searching Still
Posted on December 31, 2021 Leave a Comment
“You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay Texture, resin, coffee dyed pieces of The Great Gatsby, acrylic, pen and ink I have two more I’m working on that will look lovely stacked with this one.
New work: Tornado of Thought Forming
Posted on December 27, 2021 Leave a Comment
Tornado of Thought Forming 12×12 Mixed Media “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald I overthink. A lot. Ha. I suppose I am of a first-rare intelligence. Heavily textured, resin, pieces […]
From the studio . . .
Posted on December 24, 2021 1 Comment
I am working on building my collection of abstracts and painting with a friend is always fun. I’m so thankful my career allows me the time to do this over Christmas break. Interested in one of my abstracts? Now is the time to talk to me about it!