Bonnie Porter Greene’s studio shed beside her home at Nowra in the NSW Shoalhaven district is strewn with the tools of her trade, and the makings of future works. There are jars of brushes, cans holding felt-tipped pens, crayons and pencils, a container holding the turned-out remnants of tubes of paint and a jar erupting a volcano of dried-up oils. “It seems wasteful to throw them out,” she says. “They may make it into a work one day.”
As a multidisciplinary artist, Bonnie’s work ranges across textiles, fabric, thread, paper and painting in oils and the occasional dabble with watercolour. The common denominator is that her work is usually
