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She has exhibited widely, having been associated with galleries in Boston, Houston, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and has shown her work in Korea, France and Ireland. Her work is in many public and private collections across the country.( Her most recent wood engraving, “ch’anel” was recently purchased by the Clark Memorial Library at UCLA.) In 2002 she was one of three finalists for “Individual Artist of the Year” for Arts Orange County. Recently honored with a retrospective of her work at the new Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion at Orange Coast College, this summer she will be the featured artist at the Orange County Fair. She received her training at the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit, the University of Michigan, the Boston Museum School and at Otis Art Institute where she graduated summa cum laude with an MFA degree in painting and printmaking. Her focus, in the past few years has been on printmaking (etchings, woodcuts and wood engravings), and on egg tempera painting… although she has worked in just about any medium you can think of.
Statement We are all influenced somewhat by the landscape we inhabit. Daily walks in the Back Bay seem to have implanted twig forms on my consciousness. The cross-hatched marks I enjoy making in both printmaking and in my egg tempera paintings probably refer to this. These *The anger sticks come from the Inuit custom of sending an angry person out to walk in a straight line…where the anger dissipates, a stick is planted into the ground. Donna Day Westerman |
twigs have evolved over the years to take on symbolic meanings ( “anger sticks”)* and in my most recent work… the glyphs… the lines begin to take on a life of their own.