Please join Bonnie for the Artist of the Month reception
Tuesday, January 2, at The Lake House from 4:30-6:00 pm.
Bonnie is a fiber artist working originally as a weaver. Several years ago, she added needle felting and wet felting to her art form. Recently she added Zoeez’s, a whimsical way of weaving in the Rya style.
Rya “weaving” uses short pieces of wool yarn, about 1 ½ inches long, hand tied with a Turkish or Ghiordes knot on each of the warp strings. This type of weaving was used for centuries in the Nordic countries for warmth and rug making. Bonnie weaves in the Rya style to produce wall hangings.
After retiring from a 30- year career in residential and commercial interior design and owner of Younginer Group Interior Design, she found weaving. She is self-taught in plain and tapestry weaving, Rya weaving, and needle and wet felting techniques. Bonnie strives to interpret the beautiful natural habitats of Seabrook Island and the Low Country, rendering the scenes in fiber using her different processes.
Her interpretive tapestries are woven on a large upright floor loom. She also uses a large ridged heddle loom to explore various weaving techniques not always doable on an upright loom.
Bonnie is originally from upstate South Carolina. Moving to Columbia, S.C. in 1975 to attend the University of South Carolina, she earned her Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies degree and added classes in Studio Art. After spending many years going back and forth to Seabrook, Bonnie and her husband, Michael, moved permanently to Seabrook Island in 2019. They have been married 41 years and have two grown sons and one granddaughter.
Bonnie has work commissioned by the boutique hotel, Hotel Trundle in Columbia, S.C. and the Pink Lotus Yoga Studio in Lexington, S.C. She was juried into the Indie Art Show, Crafty Feast, in Columbia, S.C. twice. She has several commissioned pieces hanging in homes in the Midlands of South Carolina, as well.
Bonnie currently shows in the juried Charleston Crafts Cooperative Gallery located at 140 East Bay Street, Charleston, S.C.
For information on the Seabrook Island Artist Guild click here.
-Submitted by Bonnie Younginer, Seabrook Island Artist Guild
(Image credit: Bonnie Younginer)