Green Tie Affair - Art Exhibit Featured Artists - Joni Pakes

The Environmental Nature Center (ENC) will be hosting its Green Tie Affair in celebration of its 40th Anniversary. The art exhibit for the event will start May 21 and will conclude on June 2, the evening of the event. Many talented local artists will have their works on display.

JONI PAKES 

The journey for emerging artist, Joni Pakes, started in the fifth grade with the showing of a mixed media piece, a crayon-resist watercolor, at the local Bank of America. She learned to experiment with various mediums, utilizing her father's vast garage storehouse of supplies. His skill as a woodworking craftsman and studio prop master influenced his daughter to integrate fine art with ordinary materials. She obtained a B.F.A. and secondary teaching credential in Art at CSUN studying with noted artists, Karen Carson and Bruce Everett. Joni lives in scenic Newport Beach, California, which inspires her everyday by its nature-infused landscape. Careers have come and gone for her, but the love for art, her work, has always been a constant.

View Jonie's art here: www.jonipakes.com