About Bonnie Garvin
Bonnie Garvin is a painter, writer, and lifelong storyteller. An award-winning screenwriter, producer, and professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Bonnie came to painting through writing in the second half of her life—discovering in visual art a new language to explore character, emotion, and form.
Her work in television and film includes writing for major American networks as well as Showtime, Lifetime, and USA. Her first feature, The Killing Yard, was optioned by Warner Bros. and later produced by Showtime, earning nominations including an Edgar Award for Best Television Miniseries. The American Bar Association honored her with a special Silver Gavel Award for her accurate portrayal of the criminal justice system.
Bonnie is also a produced playwright and essayist, with personal work published in multiple anthologies. As the founder of the international Storytelling Lab, she's helped hundreds of writers around the world discover their unique voices. Her teaching philosophy—that we are born storytellers—is at the heart of both her writing and her art.
In her paintings, Bonnie focuses on portraiture and abstract figurative work, drawing from the same well of emotional truth and human complexity that has shaped her storytelling career. Her canvas is a new page—one where narrative, gesture, and intuition merge in vivid, resonant ways.