Sandy Bonney's 8 x 10 inch pastel on paper of "ELLA" won a First Place in Professional Artist Division and the coveted People's Choice Award at the Azalea Festival Art Show in Brookings over the Memorial Day weekend. So many people were asking why this "photo" wasn't hanging with the other photos that a sign had to be put under the pastel that stated "This is not a photograph."

Who would have thought that humble little pieces of driftwood found on our local beaches could be assembled into such imaginative art pieces? The small pieces of driftwood gathered on the windswept beaches of the Southern Oregon coast are combined with other “found” items.

Sandy Bonney's pastel portrait of Albert Handell (one of the world's top pastel artists) won first place at the Pasadena Materials and Supplies Expo: Art! show in October. The portrait was also juried into the Pastel 100 Competition sponsored by the Pastel Journal Magazine. Over 4,500 entries were received from all over the world. Only 100 are selected, twenty from each of five categories.

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Last June Sandy Bonney was contacted by the editors of "Best of America - Pastel Artists" to be one of the featured artists in their latest book. They chose three images. The first is "Waterbaby II" of a toddler playing in the Chetco River. The second chosen is "Logan" the German Shorthair Pointer owned by Har-Brook Jewelers in Brookings OR.