Pierre Bonnard was a painter within the Les Nabis group. He created flat colored areas rather than creating the illusion of a three-dimensional space. Although he was part of this group that was interested in obscure symbolism, he favored and was fascinated with the delights of his every day life. His approach to painting is very similar to mine, where we are both creating simple moment of our every day live in a beautiful way. These intimate moment invite the viewer into our worlds and ask them to draw their own meanings or interpretations of what could be happening.

We also are fascinated with color and its importance in a painting. Bonnard would become so attached to a color that he would go back into paintings that he completed years before and add the new color that he recently mixed.

Our paintings are also related through memory. Bonnard paints from memory, while I paint memories. When creating my paintings, I usually have the image in my mind and use reference images to help me visualize the poses, shadows and lighting.

I would like to recreate my digital paintings on canvas this summer and those will be my final image for the show.