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“I’ve loved being an artist all my life. As an illustrator for over fifty years and as a painter for over thirty-five, I’ve been able to find my voice.
I’ve also been able to find hope, even now in these profoundly challenging times.
In my kitchen I work at a well-worn wooden table. Paper-collages and quilts I can create in any light but I need bright daylight for my landscape paintings of the natural world.
Two pottery vases of paintbrushes and a cardboard berry-tray of paints stay beckoning for my landscapes, sheets of paper stay organized for my collages, and bolts of fabric stay ready for my quilts.
And I love the color turquoise.
My landscapes showing Vermont go to galleries and nonprofit fundraisers. My illustrations reflecting the work of community-based organizations go all over. Longtime favorites include the Champlain Housing Trust (the largest affordable-housing community land trust in the world), the Intervale Community Farm Cooperative (one of the largest community-supported agriculture farms in New England) and NOFA Vermont (providing support for organic farmers and farming throughout Vermont).
Colorful illustrations are in a new book On Common Ground: International Perspectives on the Community Land Trust containing compelling stories from grassroots activists in a dozen countries. I am so thankful that my art finds walking-distance usefulness as well as connections in the wider world.”
Learn more about Bonnie Acker via her interview with Pamela Polston:
