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Short Bio
Bonnie Glendinning is a multi-disciplinary artist working from her studio in Austin, Texas. Her paintings and sculptural work experiment with materials, texture, color, pattern, and mark-making, moving between the abstract and the graphic, shaped by the experience she is creating for the viewer. Through her studio brand, Art Trekker, she publishes Wayfinder, a monthly printed art zine subscription, and Backroads, a free email from the studio. Her return to her own art follows a thirty-five-year career as a designer and creative director and as the founder of art-based businesses, including an online gallery representing other artists, the Thriving Artist Summits, and a mentoring practice for working artists. She holds a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin.
Long Bio
Bonnie Glendinning is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Austin, Texas. Art came first: drawing as a child, then sculpture, ceramics, painting, and analog photography while earning her BFA in Studio Art at the University of Texas at Austin, where her experimental photographic work was selected for the final student exhibition. After graduation she moved to Houston, where she worked as a photographic assistant and later joined the special effects team for RoboCop 2 as an art assistant. While in Houston, her mixed-media work, rooted in photography, was selected for a group exhibition. The instinct has been the same from the start: mix the materials, test the idea, follow what the experiment reveals.
Across the thirty-five years that followed, that instinct took other forms. As a designer and creative director she developed work for organizations including Disney, Universal Studios, and PwC, designed books for authors, and served a decade with the State of Texas in design, branding, and customer experience. Alongside that work she built art-based businesses: she founded an online gallery representing other artists, produced the Thriving Artist Summits, a series of online events featuring more than fifty international artists and experts and profiled in Professional Artist Magazine, grew an engaged artist community, and coached hundreds of working artists through her online courses.
Art Trekker is the return to where she began. Her paintings and sculptural work experiment with materials, texture, color, pattern, and mark-making, moving between the abstract and the graphic. Each month she publishes Wayfinder, a small printed art zine filled with what she is experimenting with and noticing in the studio, and writes Backroads, a free email sharing the practice as it happens. Her work begins from a simple premise: let your curiosity shape the beauty you live with.
Fast Facts
Art Trekker is the personal art studio of Bonnie Glendinning, based in Austin, Texas.
Wayfinder is a monthly printed art zine, eight pages, 4.25 x 5.5 inches, arriving by mail.
Backroads is a free email from the studio.
Art Trekker, Open Studio, Backroads, and Wayfinder are trademarks of Artmuse LLC.
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