A resident of Fairfax County, Virginia, for 24 years, Bonnie Driggers attended Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, and completed her B.A. and M.A. degrees in English at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas. She taught English in Texas at Clear Lake High School and at the University of Houston and in Virginia at George Mason University. In 1999, she retired as Publications Manager for an information technology company in Northern Virginia.

Bonnie has pursued a life long interest in drawing and painting. She studied art, design, and painting at Arizona State University, at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C., and with private teachers, including numerous Master Classes with Anne Marie Evans and with Pandora Sellars, both of England.

Bonnie exhibited oils, acrylics, pastels, and collages in juried shows in Arizona and Texas. Since 2003, she has focused on botanical painting and has exhibited watercolors in numerous juried shows in the United States. Her exhibit of 8 paintings of native Virginia plants with the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society in Edinburgh, Scotland, in May and June 2008 is her first outside the United States. She is a member of the American Society of Botanical Artists and the Washington, D.C., Art in Nature Group. The Framing Guild of Falls Church and Arlington, Virginia, represents her work.

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