Conrad’s artistic style is the result of study, workshops, practice, observation of nature, and countless visits to galleries and museums. She has learned from studying first-hand the work of both contemporary and past artists.

Bonnie began her career doing landscapes in oil, and as her career has matured she has leaned more and more to an impressionistic style. She is intrigued with a broad range of subject matter, but is best known for her depictions of western life, contemporary Native American culture, and studies of female figures, often in flowing dresses accompanied by flowers or domestic fowl in a rural setting.

In 1998 Conrad entered the intensly competitive world of professional fine art. She was awarded Best of Show in her first professional outing, and since that first time, has been honored with many awards for excellence in fine art. She has self-published nine limited edition prints (“The Conrad Collection”) and has placed many originals in private collections across the United States and Canada. In May of 1996 she was invited to join the Western Academy of Women Artists as one of forty signature members.

Conrad‘s work is motivated by color—the fascinating play between complementary colors, the mysterious subtleties of grays—and the endless possibilities for expressing mood. The direction and manner of her strokes is intriguing as well, and through the use of these elements her works evoke an emotional response from the viewer. She wants the art enthusiast to hear the drumbeat and to feel the excitement radiating from dancing Indians; to re-live the tenderness of the mother-child relationship, to taste the dust and feel the sun on the face

Conrad is deeply concerned that her work should always lift the human spirit. Her use of light, design, color, and subjects create a form of beauty to which the human spirit must respond and, in responding, expand and grow lighter. “I want the world to be a finer, lighter, brighter place for my having painted here.”