Bonnie learned watercolor painting by apprenticing to more accomplished artist friends, and by taking classes at the Rochester Memorial Art Gallery’s Creative Workshop from Dick Kane, Jeanne Lindsay, and Fred Lipp, and from nationally know teachers such as Don Andrews, Frank Webb, Judy Wagner, Tony VanHasselt, Bill Vrsack, Pat Weaver, Margaret Martin, Elizabeth Apgar Smith, and Ed Steinhilper.

​She has painted commissions for The Owens Wildlife Foundation, has provided the logo and art for the Finger Lakes Chamber Music Festival, and her paintings of sailboats on Keuka Lake grace the suites at the Best Western Vineyard Suites in Penn Yan.