Donna lives in Springfield, Ohio with her joyful, fun-loving, and supportive husband of 36 years, a medical technology supervisor.   Also residing with them is their younger son, Brian, a recent graduate of Ohio State University in Architecture and Construction Management), and one of Donna's best critics.   Cheerfully by their sides is the family pet, a bossy but much loved little Lhasa Apso of 6 years.    Just 5 minutes from Donna and Dennis' home are their oldest son, Matthew, his wife Julie, and their 3 children:   Madison, Braden, and Kinslee (all artists as well!)

      About her work, Donna says, "I love working wet-into-wet with watercolor as well as a long day in the sun with my watersoluable oils (Holbein Duo).  My watermedia paintings always begin with the freedom of splashes and puddles of many bright colors, applied wet into wet, and end as a mix of realism and fantasy.   Landscapes begin to take on their own dream-like/otherworldly sense of place.  My paintings are certainly not photographic, nor pristinely realistic; but instead, they are a visual depiction of my own spirit.  During her childhood in Cincinnati, Ohio, Donna loved exploring hills, meadows, and wooded areas in the southernmost regions of her home state.  Visits along the Atlantic seascoast, created a deep appreciation for the strength and serenity of these waterways and inspired paintings of rocky cliffs, waterfalls, serene beach scenes, and lighthouses.   A recent trip to the southwestern states of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado has added more inspiration for paintings of her love of rock formations, colors, and bodies of water.

      Her watercolors on yupo express fluid, loose brushwork; while her plein air paintings in oils exhibit a more controlled, but impressionistic feeling.   Donna recently won BEST OF SHOW at the 2005 Winter competition with the Western Ohio Watercolor Society (WOWS).   Yearly, her expressive and colorful works continue to receive recognition as she is juried into the WOWS shows, and other competitions both in Ohio and Indiana.

Donna is also a juried member of LANDSCAPE ARTISTS INTERNATIONAL.

She is represented by several galleries in Ohio:  

Bed of Roses (Upper Valley Mall, Springfield, Ohio)

Steelepointe Gallery www.steelepointegallery.com
815 N. Limestone, P. O.
Springfield, Ohio 45501-0087
937-322-0400

Studio 4, Gayla Parks,  gaylaparks@kastenbalg.org
3 West Columbus Street
Nelsonville, Ohio 45764
714-541-2504

The Cappucino Room 
16 N. Main Street
Englewood, Ohio 45322