Bonnie Casey, Seen Better Days, oil, 9X12, $700

Bonnie Casey

Bonnie Casey's early training was as a scholarship student at the Art Institute of Chicago. A former instructor at the Village Art School in Skokie, Illinois, she has established herself as a painter of landscapes since moving to Arizona in 1984. She is an artist who paints the Southwest as she feels it. Her style is fluid and rhythmical. Her subjects vary from cowboys to cacti to arroyos. She paints what excites her and that excitement transports you into her works. Her canvasses are filled with light and color and yet her works are straightforward depictions.

She has won more than 100 awards in juried competitions since moving to the Prescott, Arizona area. She has won four Grambacher medals, two of them, Gold. Bonnie was a finalist for the 1995 Grumbacher Hall of Fame Award - one of the highest distinctions bestowed upon contemporary American artists.