
Boni Arendt, Artist
Boni Arendt creates drawings and paintings and teaches art lessons from her lakeside studio in Louisburg, NC. She loves to create portraits with pencil and acrylic. People, pets, cars, homes, etc. are all commissionable.
Please enjoy her work and email her with any questions.
Boni Arendt grew up in eastern North Carolina, studied Art Education, and graduated with a BFA in Painting and Drawing from East Carolina University. She moved to England for a year where she painted portraits and studied Interdisciplinary Design at Berkshire College of Art and Design. She was fascinated by architecture and design as she traveled to Egypt, Amsterdam, France and Italy.
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Back in the United States, Boni opened The Red Rooster Gallery where she began selling art and teaching art lessons. She has since then acquired a Masters in Education. She served as an art teacher at Champion Learning Academy in Morrisville, NC for 3 years where she taught ages 4-High School, afterschool, summer camp, and specialty art lessons for 3 years. Boni currently enjoys oil painting of contemporary figurative themes and landscapes where she inserts her inspiration from Italian Renaissance Art. She also continues to produce murals, portrait commissions, as well as teach painting and drawing lessons and workshops in her home studio.
ART EXHIBITIONS & RECOGNITION
Chowan Art Gallery Edenton, NC
Colonial Arts Center South Hill, VA
The Cotton Company Wake Forest, NC
Red Rooster Gallery Wake Forest, NC
Magnolia Marketplace Raleigh, NC
Jill Flink Fine Art Gallery Raleigh, NC
Grayshot Gallery Grayshot, England
Jelly-legg'd Chicken Gallery Reading, England
Splinters Cafe Bristol, England
Edge of the World Gallery Atlanta, GA
Cafe Tu Tu Tango Atlanta, GA
Joyner Library, East Carolina University Greenville, NC
EAST CAROLINA SCHOOL OF ART, Greenville, NC Outstanding Senior
SPRING DAYS ART FESTIVAL, Cary, NC WRAL NEWS Celebrity Award
