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Bonne Bedingfield
A painter who
switched to sugar.
I studied oil painting at Wesleyan College. I taught art in galleries and classrooms. And then, one day, I was asked to make my niece a Nemo cake — and I decided not to paint the fish, but to sculpt it.
The Short Version
From the canvas to the studio
I was born to make things. My parents told me early to find something I loved and become the very best at it — so I pursued a B.A. in Fine Arts with a concentration in oil painting, then taught and showed my work in local galleries.
Painting ended the day I learned I was pregnant — oil paint is toxic, and I wasn’t about to risk it. I started baking the way most pregnant women do: a lot. I bought a cake-decorating kit. Then a niece asked for a Nemo. When I posted that sculpture on Facebook, the rest became history.
I founded Beautifully Baked in 2015. Today it is a fine-art studio that happens to make dessert.
On fear “Be vulnerable, be scared, but do it anyway.” — Bonne Bedingfield
A Few Milestones
The path, in pieces
Confession
I have an affinity
for the strange —
and the somewhat dark.
Ask me who I’d invite to a dinner party and I’ll name a countess, the Elephant Man, and Alfred Hitchcock. I grew up in a house I’m fairly sure was haunted. That sensibility leaks into the work — a beetle, a Jack-in-the-box, a disembodied hand from Wednesday — always dressed in elegance, never in gimmick.
Off the Clock
What keeps me grounded
Family
A husband, three children, and a home in Newnan. The work has always been built around the people who make it worth doing.
Faith
I’m not a dreamer. I keep myself open to being led down the right path — and it has, more than once, turned out to be a cake.
Dogs
Dogs, all day long. It’s no accident that half the sculptures in the studio are dogs.
My mother’s kitchen, my children’s achievements, a good sunset, a cloud formation that earns a second look. I make the most beautiful cakes I know how to make — but the people I make them for are the whole point. “To be kind is more important than to be right.” I try to hold that in the studio as much as anywhere else.