It's A Bonny Old Life

In this episode, Bonny is joined by life coach and NLP master practitioner, Caroline Baber.   Bonny and Caroline discuss how they recently met in a 16-day-long workshop, and Caroline gives a look into her background and explains how she was introduced to NLP (neuro-linguistic programming).   They talk about how coaching has helped them both personally in the past, explaining the difficul...

In this episode of It’s A Bonny Old Life, Bonny sits down with horse practitioner and barefoot trimmer, Steven Leigh.   Bonny explains how she and Steven met years ago, and Steven gives us a look into his life in Northumberland, where he surrounds himself with his dogs and horses, and spends each day rehabilitating horses.   He shares the story of where his love of horses came from, as w...

In this episode of It's A Bonny Old Life, Bonny comes to you from her studio to share details of her sometimes chaotic but always colourful life, and to fill you in on what she's been up to in a very busy month.  She fills us in on her latest venture, her Coloured Pencil Retreat, where she was joined by 13 incredible artists at the White Bear Hotel in Masham for four days of drawing, chatting...

In this episode of It’s A Bonny Old Life, Bonny is joined by financial expert and business warrior, Louise Baldock, who recently joined Bonny’s team to help her build structure, and put protective processes and regular risk assessments into place in her business.   In the episode, Louise explains exactly what it is she does to help businesses like Bonny’s, and she shares some interesting deta...

In this episode, Bonny sat down with a very inspiring young artist, Jessica Liz. Jessica shares details of her background and her years of studying art at school, where she moved between several different types of art in search of what she was really passionate about. She talks about the difficulties she faced when her teacher told her she shouldn’t move forward with the realistic artwork she love...

In this episode of It’s A Bonny Old Life, Bonny is joined by style expert and consultant, Sarah Gray. Sarah shares details of her journey to confidence, explaining how problems with her skin as a child left her feeling as if she didn’t want to be seen. She explains how this has helped her sympathise with the people she works with today, and how she uses her own experiences to help support others....

In this week’s episode, Bonny sits down with money mentor and author, Denise Duffield-Thomas. In the episode, Denise shares details of how she got into her line of work, explaining how her own issues with money and an interest in the law of attraction encouraged her to help other people who were struggling with similar situations. She talks about her new book, Chill and Prosper, and mentions how i...

In this episode of It’s A Bonny Old Life, Bonny is joined by the wildlife, pet and equine artist, Julie Burdon-Stone. In the episode, Julie talks about her lifelong desire to become an artist and explains how life originally led her down a different path. She shares details about the work she does as a senior manager at an animal charity outside, and how she fits painting into her day. Bonny and J...

In this week’s episode of It’s A Bonny Old Life, Bonny is joined by Hela Wozniak-Kay, the co-founder of Sister Snog, the networking community for women in business. Hela explains why she dislikes the word “networking” and gives an insight into the connections, bridges and collaborations that are built through Sister Snog. Bonny and Hela discuss discovering their talent and figuring out how to turn...

In this episode of It’s A Bonny Old Life, Bonny is joined by the award-winning pet portrait and wildlife artist, Alex Fleming, who she had the pleasure of coaching briefly in 2020. Bonny shares her admiration for Alex’s work and the unique way he puts himself across on social media. Alex explains why he posts the things he does, how he tries to avoid coming across as “salesy” and why he prefers to...

In this episode of It’s A Bonny Old Life, Bonny sits down with the incredibly talented equine artist, Victoria Scotti.   Victoria talks about life with her family in Valencia and shares details of her time in New York while studying art therapy and completing her PhD.   Bonny shares her admiration for Victoria’s sketchbook series and Victoria goes into detail about how they began as a si...

In this episode of It’s A Bonny Old Life, Bonny is joined by the fabulous oil painter, Jean Pritchard, who specialises in wildlife art and teaches other artists how to paint.   In the episode, Jean talks about how she started out as a watercolour artist, before going on to study at art college. She talks about the enjoyment she got from studying art, and how she progressed from watercolours t...

In this episode of It’s A Bonny Old Life, Bonny sits down with the incredible wildlife photographer, Tazi Brown.   Tazi shares the story of her journey to becoming a wildlife photographer, telling us how she took up photography at a young age and found an interest in photographing flowers on a family holiday, before finding a strong passion for wildlife photography whilst on a trip to Tanzani...

In this episode of It’s A Bonny Old Life, Bonny is joined by author, artist, mum, and fellow Yorkshire lass, Gem Stone. Gem talks about how her love of art and all things creative started from a young age and shares the reasons why she chose to study photography instead of turning in another direction. She talks about working as a photographer, beginning in a studio, then working for herself for o...

In this episode, Bonny is joined by the inspiring pet portrait artist, author of Art Is My Career, and new mum, Sema Martin.   Sema talks us through her lifelong love of drawing, explains why she decided to study aerospace engineering after leaving school, and how it led her onto working for Nasa for 3 exciting months. She also explains what prompted her to leave the world of engineering and...

In this episode of It’s A Bonny Old Life, Bonny is joined by an incredible member of her Academy community, photography expert, workshop leader, coach (and much more!), Ruth Hoyt. Ruth shares the story of how she found her interest in photography by chance, and how exploring that interest led her to become a full-time nature photographer and photography coach to people of all ages, who is never se...

In this episode, Bonny sits down with Ubermummies founder, Alex Smallman, and talks about the similarities between their two very different businesses. Alex shares the story of how the Ubermummies business grew from her previous career as a personal trainer, and how the business changed during lockdown and made the move from in-person workout sessions to finding a new home online. Bonny and Alex t...

In this special episode of It’s A Bonny Old Life, Bonny celebrates the reopening of her online teaching platform, the Academy, with a few kind words from a handful of her members. Bonny hears from Judy, who started drawing at 71 after retiring. She talks about the fear of starting something new at a later stage in life, and tells us how she broke through barriers, improved her skills and gained co...

In this special bonus episode, Bonny talks to David Fox-Pitt as he works with Siobhans Trust to feed refugees on the border in Ukraine. David has been there for 35 days helping those in need as they come through in their thousands. David has volunteers from all over the world helping him make food, tea and coffee for the refugees as they come through border control. It's incredibly cold, particula...

In this episode of It's a Bonny Old Life Bonny visits Ian Peacock, the Ripon-based Picture Framer extraordinaire who framed some of her very first pet portraits and has supported and advised her on her journey as a professional artist ever since. Ian shares some fascinating stories about how he came to be the chosen Framer for art by some of the greatest artists in the world (dead a...

In this powerful interview with The Equine Artist Tony O'Connor, Bonny Snowdon speaks to the man who is one of the biggest inspirations behind her work. His passion for equine art, his professional accessibility and personal encouragement really gave her own career a boost and helped her make the best decision she ever made and go full time in her art business. Tony's love of horses stems fro...

In this episode of It's a Bonny Old Life, Bonny Snowdon speaks to one of her most valued mentors, Susie Pearl on the importance of finding our highest personal potential, keeping our mental health strong and living with conscious awareness. After recovering fully from an aggressive brain tumour, Susie found out about healing and what life is really all about. She is gratef...

In this uplifting episode of It's a Bonny Old Life Bonny Snowdon speaks to Lucy Hutchings Hunt, her Digital Marketing Coach & Strategist about the last year and the work they have done together on re-inventing Bonny's coloured pencil artists' community and membership, Ignite. Bonny shares how she is so excited by the revolutionary digital marketing ideas and tactics that Lucy has introduc...

In this episode of It's a Bonny Old Life, Bonny has the pleasure of speaking to one of her favourite humans, Vicki Evans. Bonny and Vicki met a few years back and Bonny is so grateful to have her positive energy, endless kindness and moral support in her life.  Vicki tells us about the exciting times she had living abroad in South Africa and Bahrain with her family when her children were...

In this podcast Bonny Snowdon speaks to her sister Annabel Andrew about some of their happy shared childhood memories and the artistic foundations of their upbringing.  Bonny acknowledges Annabel and her husband Charlie for the importance of their support in her journey to business success as a Coloured Pencil Artist and extends her gratitude to them for believing in her, even when she w...