Melissa Bonin - Artist Info

About Melissa Bonin

  • Biography

    Melissa Bonin has been painting her dream-like landscapes of Louisiana since she began taking art classes at the age of fifteen. Melissa classes at the University of Southwestern Louisiana on the advice of fellow artist, Elemore Morgan, Jr. A native of New Iberia, Bonin often speaks fondly of her beloved Bayou Teche. “When I go out on the water, something happens to me. I feel an electricity, an energy.” “Landscapes permit me to sit on the edge of abstraction and reality. You can manipulate colors in a way that produces a feeling of the landscape without copying everything realistically.”Ref.: Kemp, John R. Expressions of Place: The Contemporary Louisiana Landscape. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2016, p. 37.

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