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 […]
One of a Kind
Posted on March 15, 2022 Leave a Comment
10×20 Heavily textured base with resin & pieces of The Great Gatsby
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.
New Work: Waiting.
Posted on February 8, 2022 Leave a Comment
“Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning the horizon for the tiny ship. Now I wait for Henry. He vanishes unwillingly, without warning. I wait for him. Each moment that I wait feels like a year, an eternity. Each moment is as slow […]
Panoply 2022 & ME!
Posted on February 6, 2022 Leave a Comment
Come see me and my current collection of abstacts at Panoply in Huntsville April 29th – May 1st. I am excited to be welcomed into this show. As a teenager, I volunteered for Panoply through the art department of my high school; to be an artist on the other side of this feels like a […]
New Work: The heart is slow to learn
Posted on February 4, 2022 Leave a Comment
“Pity me that the heart is slow to learnWhat the swift mind beholds at every turn.”― Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems
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
the Journey
Posted on January 28, 2022 Leave a Comment
the Journey “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but its the journey that matters in the end.” – Ernest Hemingway
New Work: Moonlight #2
Posted on January 27, 2022 Leave a Comment
Moonlight #2 20×20 Modeling medium, acrylic paint, resin
Taking a new booth photo. . .
Posted on January 11, 2022 Leave a Comment
I spent all day Saturday setting up my tent in my front yard in order to get a more cohesive booth photo. I want to apply to some more shows and actually get in and apparently my all over the place range of pieces is more of a detriment rather than a help. So, I […]
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!
Lie to me by moonlight . . .
Posted on December 18, 2021 Leave a Comment
30×30 Acrylic on heavily textured background, pieces of The Great Gatsby, resin, pen and ink.
“Lie to me by moonlight. Do a fabulous story.” – F Scott Fitzgerald from Flappers & Philosophers
From the studio
Posted on December 12, 2021 Leave a Comment
Lovely bit of moonlight developing in this one. Now for some torn pieces of The Great Gatsby, some resin, and a tiny bit of pen and ink to finish it off. Off to a beautiful start!
Abstract: Cracked Messages
Posted on October 13, 2021 Leave a Comment
Acrylic on heavily textured background, resin, torn book pages, egg shells; 12×24 “You were my favorite word until the day I forgot how to spell you.” – Michele G Stratford I am exploring more natural texture to add to my pieces. Egg shells were a cracking good time to work with.
Abstract: Calm In the Storm
Posted on October 8, 2021 Leave a Comment
This was my very first abstract. The idea came to me when I was prepping a background for another painting. I have always textured the backgrounds with modeling medium in circular shape. My daughter was playing around with resin on some of her paintings and I thought it might be cool to add some small […]
Abstract: Crossroads
Posted on October 7, 2021 Leave a Comment
The blue in this one made this painting pop for me. “We have to get used to the idea that at the most important crossroads in our life there are no signs.” -Ernest Hemingway The Hemingway quote is true for my life – I have encountered many a decision that I was suddenly faced with […]
Abstract: Whirlpool
Posted on October 6, 2021 Leave a Comment
Some paintings declare they are finished before I had actually planned for them to be finished. This is one of those. I fell in love with it at this stage in the process.
Abstract: Strong Foundation
Posted on October 5, 2021 Leave a Comment
The coffee dyed book pages turned out really cool. They are spotted and have a very pretty range of coffee colored hues. I believe a strong foundation in vocabulary gives us the power to communicate as well as understand most effectively. Lack of communication is the root of misunderstandings and conflicts.
Abstract: Searching
Posted on October 4, 2021 Leave a Comment
“Searching” 36×36 mixed media, textured foundation, resin, acrylic paint. “If I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it – keep going come what may.” – Vincent Van Gogh. The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh This one was s departure from the ususal circular shape. It reminds […]
Abstract: Tidepool
Posted on October 4, 2021 Leave a Comment
The Steinbeck quote is pulled from a passage describing the wonder of the world and the connection we sometimes feel as humans to all of it – the wonder of being a part of the whole of life. It is a very existential and Thoreau type view of the world. I, personally, think this pull […]
Abstract: It’s Complicated
Posted on October 3, 2021 Leave a Comment
I love how this turned out! The texture is so much fun. I delight in finding ways to make texture the focus of a piece and this painting kept me mesmerized. You cannot see in a photo the juxtaposition of matte paint against the shiny resin in the stream – but it is beautiful.
A few little birdies . . .
Posted on September 12, 2021 Leave a Comment
I will be participating in the River Clay Fine Arts Festival in Decatur, Alabama this October and these sweet little 6×6 birdies will be there! I am spending a good bit of time in the evenings and on the weekends creating pieces for this show and I am loving every minute of it!