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Artist Bronwyn Thorndycraft (main) poses with some of her work at the Punch Studio Gallery at The Forks. New Art International Magazine will be featuring Thorndycraft and some of her work, including Rock Tropic (inset) in their 2010 annual. (ROB BROWN)

When St. Vital artist Bronwyn Thorndycraft dreams something, watch out — chances are it may become reality.

While browsing through a Winnipeg bookstore back in 2006, Thorndycraft came across New Art International Magazine’s 2006 annual.

"I pulled this absolutely beautiful book off the shelves and said I wanted to be in it one day," she says.  Four years later, the St. Vital artist is featured in the magazine’s 2010 annual.

Thorndycraft, who specializes in acrylic paintings as well as drawings, says she has always creative, since she was a young child.

"I always drew as a kid but I never really showed them to anyone," she says.

As her teen years progressed, art took a backseat. Now in her late 30s, Thorndycraft says she rediscovered the medium and her talent for it during her 20s.

"Ideas would pop into my head and I’d just have to get them down on paper."

Thorndycraft has only gotten serious about the business side of art in the past few years.

"That itch to be creative has always been in me and I have always recognized it, but I just didn’t know where to go or really what to do as far as next steps," she says. 

With the advent of online and PC technology, Thorndycraft has found her left and right feet. Her own website and marketing has helped her make contact with prospective clients and simply boosting her artistic profile.

"I got a site up and running and started making contact with some galleries, I got a response and I went from there."

When she found out about her inclusion in New Art International Magazine’s 2010 annual, she thought it was a consolation letter.
"I received a package in the mail, I thought it was a thank-you letter, but it wasn’t."

New Art International will run a short piece on Thorndycraft as well as feature some of her work including her acrylic paintings Outskirts of Mars and Rock Tropic.

Now she is looking towards a project that will take her through to summer 2010: designing greeting cards.

"It’s a new and different idea for me so we’ll see how that works," she says.

In addition to New Art International’s annual, Thorndycraft’s work can be seen at Punch Studio, Wayne Arthur and cre8ery galleries.Her  website is: www.bronwynart.com

rob.brown@canstarnews.com