| Donna
Watson has been a painter for 28 years. She is a signature member of the American
Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society and the Northwest Watercolor
Society. She is also a member of the Women Painters of Washington. Donna has won
numerous awards in national juried exhibitions as well as best of show awards.
She has articles and paintings published in American Artist magazine,
The Artist Magazine, Watercolor and Watercolor Magic magazines. Donna has experience
as a juror and workshop instructor at the national level and in Canada. She has
been juror and/or workshop instructor for the National Watercolor Society, Watercolor
Society of Oregon, Florida Watercolor Society, Ottawa Mixed Media Artists, Ohio
Creativity Seminar, and National Watercolor Oklahoma to name a few.
Donna
views her work as an ongoing process of search, and self-examination. She is interested
in the passage of time, and what remains. She tries to explore the effects of
time on memory, identity and nature. Her work is a reflection of the transient
cycle of life.
Circles are recurring symbols in her work along with
letters, numbers and poetry passages. Circles reinforce the idea of the cycle.
She hopes her work is an expression of the personal within the universal, the
cycle further completed when the viewer brings his or her own piece of history
to the meaning of the painting.
With the passage of time there is a
transience depicted with traces, recollections, and layers. There is also an enduring
permanence to the recurring cycle. Even though every being is alone and separate,
there is also a universal connection that is necessary for survival.
Donna currently paints nonobjective mixed media paintings, using acrylic and collage
on illustration board, canvas or wood, painting with textured papers, digital
images, graphite drawings, rusty metal, weathered wood and fabric. She layers
paint, scratching and rubbing into the layers, leaving a residue of marks much
like the themes she is trying to convey.
She also experiments with encaustic
wax and assemblages. Content is very personal and important to her painting. With
degrees in psychology and education from Western Washington University in Bellingham,
she had an early career teaching hearing impaired children. She also had early
art talent and moving to Seattle, Washington, she became President of the Northwest
Watercolor Society.
She settled in Tualatin, Oregon, and from Alex Powers,
took a workshop that focused her energies from traditional landscapes and still
life's to personally expressive abstraction. Her work began reflecting her Asian
heritage, and she became a signature member of the National Watercolor Society.
Donna now lives on Camano Island in Washington State.
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