Liz Bonham • Texas • waow
| Western | Landscapes | Plein Air | Portrait | Figurative | Still Life | Book Illustrations |
"People and Places.”
Women Artists of the West, Signature
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Liz Bonham
Her early career began when she was 15 and working as a pastel portrait artist at Six Flags. After college, she worked as an illustrator in the children's and gift book market. Her paintings have graced many books, including her Gold Medallion winner, "The Crippled Lamb", by Max Lucado, and her Silver Medallion winner and Angel Award or Excellence in Media winner, "Timeless Moments", by Alton Howard. Her book "The Crippled Lamb" has sold almost two million copies. The collector edition of this book includes songs and the story recorded by the voice of Jodi Benson, the voice of "The Little Mermaid". Her books are sold around the world in different languages and her publishers include Harper Collins, Scholastic, Word, Howard and Chariot Victor. She has also been National Show Artist for the Appaloosa Journal Magazine and was featured in the magazine.
Liz currently creates fine art oil paintings and has received awards from Plein Air Magazine, National Oil and Acrylic Painter's Society, Art Renewal Center, Women Artist of the West, American Plains Artist and numerous plein air competitions including En Plein Air Texas, Lighthouse Plein Air, Outdoor Painters Society and Paint the Town. Her work has been featured in Plein Air Magazine and was one of Southwest Artist Magazine's "Artists to Watch". She was a recipient of the inaugural San Angelo Museum of Fine Art- En Plein Air Fellowship and a four person museum show that included Liz Bonham, Suzie Baker, Carla Bosch and Katie Cundiff.
Liz has been classically trained, and her painting style reflects a contemporary view of this classical training in realism and impressionism. Inspired by the beauty, joy and peace that comes from connecting the spiritual and natural worlds, her studio and plein air paintings explore these relationships of the American west and beyond. Liz regularly travels for plein air painting competitions nation wide and loves to paint landscapes, people and still life from life. Though she had her early training in classical methods, she considers herself a colorist.
Women Artists of the West, Signature
OPA-Oil Painters of America
AIS-American Impressionist Society,
PAPNM-Plein Air Painters of New Mexico
NOAPS-National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society (Signature Member),
AWA-American Women Artists (Associate With Distinction)
APA-American Plains Artists and OPS-Outdoor Painters Society.
