Donna Watson, AWS, NWS

Donna Watson is a mixed media collage painter. Her works have been accepted into numerous juried national and international exhibitions and have received many awards. She has signature memberships in AWS and NWS. She also has extensive experience as a juror and workshop instructor all over the U.S. and Canada. Her works have been widely published in art magazines like American Artist and The Artist’s Magazine (most recently July/August 2011) and books including the recent book MASTERS COLLAGE: Major Works by Leading Artists. Her paintings can be found at Seattle Art Museum sales gallery, Lucia Douglas gallery in Bellingham and Matzke Fine Art gallery on Camano Island, where she lives.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I view my work as an ongoing process of search and self-examination. I am interested in the passage of time and what remains. I look for this affect of time on nature and the cycle of life. I also try to explore the effects of time on memory, which can dwell in either light or shadow. Our memories may be filled with gaps, like our childhood memories. Or our memories may be faded or just the traces or vestiges of a remembered moment in our past. My work is an expression of the personal within the universal, and I invite the viewer to bring 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 and layers. My process in my painting also incorporates traces and layers, in which paint is layered, lifted, scratched and rubbed, leaving a residue of marks much like the themes I am trying to convey.

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