About Donna White
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Donna White graduated with BA Hons. Fine Art, and a Higher Education Diploma, from the University of Natal, South Africa in 1976, and has enjoyed a varied and expansive art career.
Her work was exhibited on 'Art South Africa Today’, an exhibition curated by the legendary art critic Clement Greenberg, included in a book on South African Art, and on a retrospective exhibition of Photorealism at the Pretoria Art Museum.
More recently her work has been included in exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, and the Royal West of England Academy Open Exhibition.
She has held numerous solo exhibitions, Open Studio exhibitions at her studio, taught and facilitated art, and judged various art competitions.
80's and 90's
Photorealism led way to experimentation. Donna White’s paintings of the late 1980′s and 1990′s became more fluid and expressive with bold colours playing a more important role, ultimately freeing her from the constraints of photorealism. She explored the interaction between the object and background, drawing with paint and experimenting with brush strokes and paint textures and the abundant use of colour. During this period, Donna White successfully exhibited her large gestural and colourful paintings at various group and solo shows in Southern Africa and Germany.
Early 2000's
In 2000, Donna White and her family relocated to the UK, where she continued with her preoccupation with the challenges of presenting three dimensional subject matter within a two dimensional format. Her work became increasingly abstract. The rigid constraints of photorealism finally unravelled in a explosion of shape, line, texture and colour. Her work of this period continued to enthral, with numerous solo and group shows, as well as having a number of paintings selected for and exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition, and the Royal West of England Academy shows.
