Bernadette has enjoyed a career as a package designer and art director. Since 2010, Bernadette has taught watercolor, drawing, and yoga both privately and at museums and art centers throughout New England.

She is a visionary artist whose work explores the intersection of symbolic language, sacred geometry, and visionary allegory. Influenced by dreams, ancestral memory, and personal shamanic studies, she creates paintings and illustrations in watercolor, oil, drawing, and mixed media that serve as portals between inner experience and universal archetypes. Geometry acts as a sacred framework within her work, grounding ephemeral visions into form, while her meditative process infuses each piece with reflection, reverie, and quiet intention. Through layered imagery inspired by the natural and mystical worlds, her art invites viewers into contemplative spaces where imagination, memory, and spiritual connection converge.

As a grant recipient at Buffalo State, she presented Yoga & Art, a three-day workshop integrating creative and contemplative practice.

Her publications include Sadie’s Sojourn (1987), a dreamlike pairing of graphite drawings and poetry; contributions to The Sacred Circle of Geometry and Symbol (2003) by Lorena Loo; the children’s nature-based program Ancient Ways(2004); and the woven book art Hildegard of Bingen (2016), with a new chapbook edition forthcoming in 2026, along with additional illustrated and written works.

She was featured in American Watercolor Magazine (1997) as an experimental watercolorist and has exhibited her work in Florida, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island.

She continues to support the arts through community engagement, serving as an art advisor and volunteer in her local community. Her work reflects a belief that creativity and inner reflection enrich not just the individual, but the collective.