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In the beginning Donna enjoyed
painting images of France, the country she fell in love with in her
early adulthood. Now, what has become more and more significant to her,
is the actual application of the paint—thicker texture and use of
various brushstrokes to express vitality, spontaneity and movement. Her
work is characterized by bold use of color. Though originally trained
as an illustrator, she now leans towards a looser, slightly off kilter,
and distilled depiction of people and places. Donna paints intuitively
and as she has matured as a painter, she finds myself wanting to push
the boundaries of shapes and forms into the borders of the abstract. It
is this delicate balance between the representational and the abstract
that currently fascinates and challenges her in her continuing artistic
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