A couple of months ago I popped into
Artcetra - Studio 2 in Townsville run by the multi talented artist
Sue Tilley. She has so many wonderful artworks on display in there, but something that particularly caught my eye were the paintings of
Donna Maloney.
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| Lotus - Refinement of Life |
I bought one of her cards and am thrilled she's decided to write a piece for my blog. I think her work is fantastic and I'm sure you'll love it too...
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| Magical Mystery Tour 3 |
In Donna's words ~
I live in Australia's tropical Queensland, and love to paint
the natural environment. Not long after we arrived to this area, I was walking
through the rainforest and realised that this was what I wanted to paint and
share with other people.
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| Lotus on Lace |
The challenge came when I sat down in my art studio at
home to paint. Looking at the photos I had taken I realised I didn't want to
paint an all green rainforest. I needed to take a different approach, I needed
to capture how this subject made me feel.
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| Rainforest Habitat 4 |
When walking through a rainforest I feel so happy especially
when my family is nearby. So if it makes me feel happy, I have to paint in
happy colours. The colours I choose are very bright and include
warm yellows, oranges, reds for the curtain fig trees and cool blues to
Indigo for the background. I also love to use handmade papers to paint and draw
on and collage them onto my larger paintings.
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| Rainforest Understudy |
Last year for my solo exhibition I had mainly painted the
lotus flower, waterlilies and curtain fig trees. Lotus flowers represent how I
want my life to be, happy, joyous and always growing. I also do art journals
with my photos of what I'm going to paint, tests of the different paintings
that I will do and quotes that I write on some of my paintings.
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| My Journal |
This year I will be painting silk scarves and do a new
series of paintings for linen, cushions, and diaries.
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| Dance of the Lilly |
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| Rainforest Leaves |
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| Red Mushrooms |
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| The Curtains Cave 1 |
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| Magical Mystery Tour 2 |
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| Curtains Cave 2 |
Also I have collected
different papers from Italy and the United States and would like to do more
painting with these beautiful papers.
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| Streets of Rome 2 |
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| Having a Break - Venice |
find Donna
~ inspiring and beautiful ~
