Biography, continued

Donna also has a long exhibition record as a fine artist. She has exhibited widely, having been associated with galleries in Boston, Houston, San Francisco and Los Angeles as well as many international galleries. As mentioned above, she has been a commercially successful free-lance designer and illustrator since the age of 14. Her endeavors in this area include an award winning endangered species calendar series and a bicentennial calendar for the Marine Midland Bank in New York. Her work is in many public and private collections across the country and she was recently honored with a retrospective of her work at the Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion at Orange Coast College.

Currently she is developing a new body of work based on natural elements while also working on large scale paintings in egg tempera of friends' gardens to be shown with photographic portraits of their keepers.