Check out Sonia Bombart’s Artwork

Today we’d like to introduce you to Sonia Bombart.

Sonia, we’d love to hear your story and how you got to where you are today both personally and as an artist.
I grew up in the big cultural Metropolis of Mexico City, a place of enduring beauty with wide boulevards, pungent flavors and vivid colors. During my youth, I explored different forms of training in the performing arts, specifically in singing and acting. I worked on movies, and as a talk show host for TV (Televisa Mexico. MTV/ videocosmos ) presenting progressive, punk music videos from the 80’s. In my late twenties, I moved first to San Diego and later to Florida.

These two places of vast richness and tropical trees with shimmering blue and green waters were my inspiration to start exploring painting. In Florida, I attended the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, majoring in Computer Animation for a short period of time. At the same time, I took some courses in painting at the Boca Raton Museum. In my thirties I moved to Connecticut – my current residence – a place of extraordinary beauty with autumn foliage and winter snow. These places have informed my palette.

We’d love to hear more about your art. What do you do you do and why and what do you hope others will take away from your work?
I am an abstract artist. Primarily, I create two dimensional paintings in which I try to capture ethereal moments that I call dreamscapes. Theses dreamscapes convey an emotional response to a color palette and intensity. It can be soft or jarring. I like to start my painting with a short ritual of incense and prayer. This ritual center me and helps me to choose my palette. I use a variety of brushes; thin and thick, as well as round and flat. I also use palette knives, pencils markers, hands, fingers, and crayons, etc. – anything that helps me create a unique mark or gesture.

I also like to work with sprays and airbrush, these tools allow me to achieve the results of graffitiing. The marks that I imprint on my canvases are frequently lyrical – with a juxtaposition of some controlled moves. By adding and subtracting paint, a constant editing of the piece is required. My inspiration is primarily emotional, it could be a feeling, a literal dream, or a state of mind. Music is imperative in my creative process. I try to paint an image that doesn’t exist!

The sterotype of a starving artist scares away many potentially talented artists from pursuing art – any advice or thoughts about how to deal with the financial concerns an aspiring artist might be concerned about?
For struggling artist I recommend to be confident about your works worth. If you don’t believe who will? Do something in the art scene, start a blog, make a group, throw a party. Help build community! Go to more openings, no matter how busy your schedule might be…make time to build a network of like-minded people. Be serious about your social media. Social media can sell your work. Being an artist is being a hustler. Be positive and professional when dealing with your gallery. Don’t be afraid to suck. You need to sell some work. not all the art we make is superb. Be confident and fake it till you make it.

Do you have any events or exhibitions coming up? Where would one go to see more of your work? How can people support you and your artwork?
Gallery 104 is currently representing me. My website www//soniabombart.com and social media.

Contact Info:

• Address: 32 Bernhard Dr. Weston, Ct.06883
• Website: Soniabombart.com
• Phone: 917-301-6946
• Email: Soniabombart@gmail.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soniabombart/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/soniabombartstudio
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/soniabombart
• Other: https://www.pinterest.com/soniabombart/

Image Credit:
Sonia Bombart

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