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Donna Walsh Warren
artist@walshwarren.com
Donna Walsh Warren began painting early in life and took a
break for a career in science and technology.
The following describes her approach.
I’m drawn to watercolor by its
transparency and the way light interacts with it. I tried to be meticulous in my
work, something that came naturally with my background in science. However,
now there is spontaneity, a freedom, that I hadn’t felt before. The image flows
freely from my brush. Planning is a “before thing.” Something that occurs
before my fingers touch the brush and the brush touches the color. After that,
it is a time of emotion and caress of brush against paper.
In my search for a distinct aesthetic
voice, I’ve been doing landscapes, figures and floral's, but such a process
takes time, and at this time, my heart holds a tumult of the learned and
sensed. Winnowing them through experience is refining the apparent cacophony is
a matter of time and experience. My decision process is a merger of careful
planning and inspiration. This was operative in paint, brush paper selection
and just about every tool needed. In other words, left brain activity in the
planning. But once I begin, I shift to the right brain and allow the paints and
the images before me to guide the brush.
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Each painting begins with a story or emotion I want to share. Painting is a
very spiritual thing to me. In painting, time and space vanish and I’m part of
the cosmos rather than outside and observing. It isn’t a linear process because
the act of painting opens new windows to what I want to paint. I love colors;
working spontaneously and watching the image and the emotion take shape on the
paper. When I paint, it’s collaboration between my soul and my training with
each overcoming the limitations of the other and supporting its strengths. I
hope a viewer can feel a sense of intimate engagement. I want them to see the
communication my own soul received from what I was looking at expressed in a
tangible form.
Donna is a member of the Delray Art League and the Palm Beach
Watercolor Society. She resides in Delray Beach, Florida and Barton, Vermont.
More of her watercolors can be seen at
www.donnawalshwarren.com
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