Art BuMPs

Background Information

As an artist, my first love was drawing.
Drawing, seemed to me, to be the purest form of communication.
As a child, when I didn’t understand something, my mother would ask,

“Do you need me to draw you a picture?”
I knew she was being sarcastic, but I always said, “Yes.”
Then I discovered clay.
Here was a material that I could mold and shape and draw on in any direction!

Naturally, when I received my formal education  as an artist, I considered my sculptures to be 3-D drawings.  In my work, I try to create a visual language based on familiar objects combined in unfamiliar ways. This is important in order to reevaluate accepted notions about the objects and our relationship to them.

In a similar way, I have begun to make small works to be worn as personal adornment. With these pieces I am again drawing, but with beads, metal and stone.
I wish to combine the sacred or precious with the profane or common in order to reevaluate those notions of beauty.

I hope you enjoy my drawings, sculpture, beads and jewelry.

Thank you for visiting my site!

Bonnie Polinski received an MFA from the University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa in Ceramics and Sculpture, and a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in Ceramics and Printmaking. Her experience includes: Fine Artist, Docent at MOCA - Cleveland, Ceramics and Jewelry Instructor-Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge LA, Jewelry Instructor for the Baton Rouge Bead Co., Newsletter Editor for the Baton Rouge Bead Society, Youth Art Instructor at UA-Tuscaloosa, Fine Arts Instructor for the City of Iowa City-Iowa, Juror for Iowa City HS Art Exhibition, and Adjunct Art Instructor at UA-Tuscaloosa AL. Bonnie currently teaches private fine art and jewelry instruction. She has been making and selling her own work since 1984. She, her husband, and their two children live in Champaign IL, and enjoy collecting art from other artists both national and international.