^{Bonese Collins Turner}

^{“Looking Back and Forward”}

 As a child growing up in Kansas and Nebraska, Bonese was fascinated with the west, its terrain, its original people and its history.  Other indelible influences came with visits to her father’s laboratories, viewing a microscopic world through his lab equipment, seeing aquariums and specimens of all types.

Now a resident of Woodland Hills, California Bonese continues teaching at one of LA’s community colleges, conducting occasional workshops or seminars and always keeps exploring with her visual work.  Some of the work seen here is earlier and relates to the western land, its creatures, symbols and changes with time.  Those childhood memories and influences are easily seen.  Other works relate more obviously to scientific research, recent discoveries and the wondrous possibilities yet to be found about out universe…and others.  Much of the work attempts to show the richness of human life, the complexity of our make-up and our time.  References are made to genetic mapping and DNA studies.  The beauty, the seeming miraculous and the awe-inspiring elements of our seen and unseen worlds continue to fascinate.  We continue to explore, to seek and hope to understand-each in our own way.  May we have wisdom.