Aimee Bonham received her Bachelors of Fine Arts from BYU in painting in 2002. There she studied under Joe Ostroff, Hagen Haltern, Bruce Smith, Gary Barton and Wayne Kimball. Shortly after graduating from BYU she moved to Chicago with her husband and new baby. In 2006 she had two solo shows in Chicago; ARC Gallery Educational Foundation and Café Selmarie. Previous to those shows her work was exhibited in “Custer’s Last stand”, “Afternoon with the Arts” and at Ravenswood Bank.

After being away for almost fifteen years Aimee has recently returned to live in St. George, UT where she was born. Her love of nature developed here as a child darting about the red hills. “I reference nature a lot even though it might not always be evident. Blind drawings and spontaneous reactions to shapes on the panel directs where each painting will go. It is a process of building up, sanding back, and building up again.”

Painted on wood panels, her art attracts the viewer with her calm sense of abstraction layered in oil, wax, and pencil. Her intimate oils, which sometimes read as landscapes, are organic in color, shape, and line. A letter and number titles each piece and allows the viewer full personal interpretation. “Even though I may see certain things in what I am painting, I don’t want to lead the viewer. I really enjoy hearing what other people might see and feel when looking at one of my pieces.”