soniaboening fine art

Highlights of 2025 - The gesso workshop I held with the London group

July 2025:
Creating veils of mist. I sometimes need a bout of silence between the excursions into colour.

Stories of silence

Just markmaking

and

writing

stories

June 2025:
With sizzling temperatures of 30 and above I fled into the garden with my work.

Working with ancient art materials, red ochre pigment from Santa Fe. Ochre was used in days of yore as a sunblocker and to keep insects away.

Was imagining the stories this earth could tell. Was wondering if the indigineous people of America were called "red indians", because they used ochre on their bodies.

Could my tondi whisper these stories to you?

2025, January: At the AdbK in Kolbermoor with Peter Casagrande.

I guess yellow and gold are vying to be my go to colours this year - or am I longing for some golden sunshine?

Was I thinking of the row of golden Gingko trees near the TU?

Highlights of 2024:
Group show at Tizianos - December 2024 with Gallery Stephan Stumpf. I was chuffed to have four of my larger paintings chosen to be exhibited and the curation was perfect.

ANTARKTIS, (2024) my latest textured canvas, 120cm diameter

ODE TO YVES looked good on the red walls.18 glazes of pure ultramarine pigment on canvas, 100cm diameter.

I was amazed how my textured tondo corresponded so well with it's neighbour.

Claudia and Stephan, thank you for the show. It was a wonderful evening .

Residency,Mulino Nuovo in Erbe, November 2024.

We, a group of artists from Europe attended a residency in the old water mill in Autumn. Inspired by the surroundings we collaborated, held workshops, shared our diverse work processes and spent long evenings discussing. Thanks to Annalisa Mercuri for the organisation and to Chiara,Isabella and Devis our hosts..

The Molino where we could hear the gushing waters 24/7.

Greeted in the mornings with a veil of mist.

The tree-lined waterways inviting us to long walks.

I loved the reflections.

Annette (CH & France), a textile artist, busy weaving nests of rattan. She also experimented with rust, wrapping old farm equipment with canvas to capture rust stains.

Inger (Copenhagen), a root artist, held a momigashi workshop. These were so ephemeral like growth rings of trees.

Brindusa (CH), was enamoured by the portal leading to the gallery and worked on this large installation. She also engaged in monoprinting, which I was happy to learn.

Annalisa (Italy), could spend only limited time at the mill due to unforeseen circumstances, however, she cyanotyped with the waters, creating a sense of place.

I was inspired by the ghostly morning mist, the avenues of trees standing like sentinels and their reflections. I worked with local pigments mined in the Veneto area, thanks to Colori Dolci.

Kate ( UK, from a little island off Cornwall), a textile artist, was busy working on textural stitches, inspired by the colours and textures of the place.

Exhibition at the Molino di Erbe, Veneto. November 2004 following the residency.
We held a group exhibition at the airy and well-lit gallery at the mill. Curating the differing works was successful. We thank our hosts at the mill project, Chiara, Isabella and Devis for their kind hospitality. It was an intensive and creative time spent there and I daresay we returned full of inspiration and serious plans to create our artist group in 2025.

Everyone made some marks. Kids who partook loved this and we did too.

Annalisa capturing the sunlight in the stream with a cyanotype.

I worked further on Brindusa's canvas. experimenting with the local pigments.

Inger's lovely momigashi - such a meditative process.

I tried my hand at printing.

More prints by Brindusa

Annette's work well presented.

Kate collaborated with Annette, stitching texture on the rust-marked canvas.

A well earned evening sip.

Meals together were fun.

Our very stylish living room - cum evening studio.

A time well spent inspired by the surroundings.

Local Artist Weekend in Munich, mid October 2024.
I exhibited in my artspace in Trafo showing my latest work on my Earth Stories series.

.Loved the sunlight glinting on the work creating a fiery glow.

Just couldn't resist this play of colour.

EARTH STORIES: Some pops of colour which I couldn't resist at the Kultueren. (October 2024

Pigments from Santa Fe on wood, 75 cm diameter.

Pigments on wood, 75cm diameter. I love the different reds, depending where the pigments were excavated.

Pigments on wood, 75cm diameter

Pigments from Rousillion - on canvas

Graduation Ceremony - University of the Creative Arts - Royal Festival Hall - London - 12.07.2024

Am chuffed to be graduating as a mature student and somehow this means more to me than all the other grad ceremonies decades ago. A ceremony with pomp and circumstance at the Royal Festival Hall, London.

Reaping the rewards:

of years of working and studying, researching, writing, experimenting, cogitating, discussing, critics, artist talks and delving into the art world. Thankful to all the staff and dedicated tutors who accompanied me along the way. Special thanks to Bryan. Thanks also to my fellow students for the years of inspirational crits, cross pollination and collaboration. We did it!

Curious Space: Transitions in Landscape

Group exhibition at:
The Willesden Gallery
LONDON

Sonia Böning
Margaret Borthwick
Wendy Healey
Alison McCoy
Mickos
Sue Parr
Arlene Sharp
Mark Taylor
Dhama Thanigasapapathy
Eddie Tucker

9-20July 2024
Private View 11.July 6-8pm

(Image Sonia Böning)

2024 July. Group Exhibition in London

At the Private View in London on 11.07.2024

The exhibition was curated by Dhama and Arlene with Colin's help

Both curators and visitors happy with the hanging.

A successful private viewing - thanks to everybody who came, Arlene and Dhama and everybody else who helped.

2024, June - Residency in Munich with artists of the London ArtLab group.

Wendy, Alison, Dhama, Annette and myself experimenting with pigments and cold wax.

A brief respite in the heat of Summer.

At the Gallery Braun-Falco in the Nymphenburgerstr.

At Fenna Wehlau's Gallery in Schwabing

Our outdoor studio

All busy at work

Wendy's workshop

My pigment workshop

Solo Exhibition
Tiziano, Gerner Str. 48,
80638 Munich.
15.04 -21.06.2024

This one found its forever home

The Earth Stories series popped out on the red gallery walls

well curated - the red earth story

Chuffed to have been interviewed by Aley for MünchenTV. Was on air over 18 times!

Residency in Munich, June 2023.

Some artists from the OCA-Europe group partook in a residency in Munich: Annette (CH & France), Annalisa from Verona, Inger from Copenhagen, Baiba from Latvia and Bryan from the UK.
We shared, discussed, created, experimented, collaborated and played. We visited Cy Twombly at the Brandhorst, were inspired by the pinks and oranges at Prof. Geiger's studio, enjoyed making cyanotypes with Annalisa and watching Annette create her octopussy. A visit to Kremer Pigment emptied our purses, but everyone was pleased with the goodies they discovered there. This needs to be done again perhaps in 2026.

2023, Exhibition - MENACING BEAUTY.

Post Grad Online Exhibition 2023 on Kunstmatrix
with fellow student Dhama of London.

OCEAN ART

Solo Exhibition at Christiane Wolters' Art Space NY_Dentists

16.02.2023

It was a successful opening night with around 98 guests. I held a short opening speech and the moderator, Alex Onken from MünchenTV held an interesting interview about my process. This was shown 18 times in the course of the following days. Felt famous for a week! Jonas Brinkmann kept us in swing with jazz blues on his saxophone.

The party service was done by Claudia of Tiziano's of Gern - very elegant!
I am thankful to Kristiane, my co-organisor, for letting me use her very elegant space and for her help with the hanging. Her girls too were a great help during the hanging and the vernissage. Specially thankful to my Katrin for her moral support.

OCEAN ART

By Sonia Böning

zur Vernissage OCEAN ART von Sonia Böning sind Sie herzlich eingeladen
in der Nymphenburger Straße 139 (3St)
am 16.02.2023 Zwischen 19.00 und 22.00 Uhr.

Ihr Kristiane Wolters, Sonia Böning & Team.