Bonita Tabakin

Every artist has a focus, a reason for painting. Mine is to enable my audience better health on all levels.

Many artists embrace color as their calling card but paint or photograph or sculpt in the hues that move them in their chosen direction to showcase their talents. I create the opposite. My focus is on other's wellbeing not my needs. Each creation tells a story just like a novelist writes one.

Since I was six, I have been a recognized artist always on a new wave. I paint, sculpt in fiber and metals, install, and perform to lead your eyes to explode with healthy color coursing through every cell in your body and all your other senses.

I create by mixing freshly mortared and mixed pigments which have scientifically reflected health benefits.

Our eyes control every cell in our bodies, a scientific fact.

I also embrace installations, wind, heat, ice, textures, fragrances, sound, and performance to augment your vision for those who are suffering from impaired sight or are blind.

“Light Works” is this collection employing many techniques and multiple thin layers of mainly water color pigments - sometimes soft swirls of wet on wet or glaze on dry, blossoms, trial backs and veins of paints or luminescent jewels on gold or silver or flakes of jewels like pearls imbedded in rag paper sometimes stroking in several holograms which creates 2 paintings in one.

As a teen and later as an adult, I had the privilege to personally study with two legends after stiff juries: Picasso, and L. Colbert Dubois. My mentors were renowned Tom Rowe, master of the Baroque oil method and egg tempera graphics; and professors at the acclaimed Corcoran Institute Bill White, and Robert Frost, both of White House fame, and abstract artist Bill Dutterer in from the West. You can still see their influences in my personal soft style.