Donna's Flower Artwork

As an image maker I like to work with degrees of abstraction. I have a few recent series of images that are figure oriented. These works have been born out of a very minimalist foundation where I tried to achieve a dynamic in a shallow space using a limited palette of earth tones and grey scale and pushing the limitations of the palette as far as I could hopefully evoking a sense of color. The earlier experiments had me thinking about the muscularity of the organic shapes pushing and pulling on each other within 2 dimensions. Even the simple shapes took on personality and in my mind there is always a battle or a tussle between the two forces and the abstract marks and movements held a narrative. The muscularity under the skin of the painting and a life force emanating from deep inside the painting is what I look for. …and after all that I still tell everyone…ultimately I am a still life painter…