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Studio Tour: Bonnie Levinthal

Last year,  I featured a home tour of Phildaelphia painter Bonnie Levinthal's perfectly appointed and gracious Chestnut Hill home. Tucked away on the third floor is her painting studio, the jewel in the crown if you ask me in a home chock full of jewels. Not only because of its glorious light, but because it reminds you of a European pied a terre, simple, humble, and utterly perfect for the serious work of artists. As a fine art photographer specializing in large scale silver portraits, I have always envied my painter friends toiling away in daylight while I slogged it out in windowless darkness. Ok, the darkroom red light is pretty captivating as is all the running water, but ten hours in a darkroom suspends time, oddly, while ten hours in a painters studio allows the unfolding of light, how it moves through the day, changing color and intensity, its own kind of miracle. Bonnie's work has always been (among other things sensual and psychological) a treatise on light. Light as atmosphere, light as form, light transforming land, and light illuminating the psychological vagaries of the mind. You can see more of Bonnie's work and follow her blog by clicking here.

Home Tour: Bonnie Levinthal

Bonnie Levinthal is an artist and professor who lives in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, a verdant  outlying area of Philadelphia known for gorgeous stone houses and iconic American architecture.  Bonnie's home is both gracious and inviting, filled with art works and objet truvee that  would be the envy of any collector. A renown painter, Bonnie's pieces are displayed throughout, as are the art works of friends and colleagues.  A veritable gallery of fine art and polished yet eclectic furnishing, every inch of this grand house makes you feel welcome and at ease. Bonnie's studio is its own sort of wonderful place that I will be detailing in a future post.  In the meanwhile you can visit her artist website here.