Bio
About Donna White
Donna White (BA Hons. Fine Art, HED), South African-born, has enjoyed a varied and expansive art career.
Her work has been showcased at international venues including the Pretoria Art Museum, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, and the Royal West of England Academy.
She has held numerous solo exhibitions, including a major solo show at South Hill Park in Bracknell.
Today, individuals and interior designers choose Donna’s work to bring vibrant colour into exceptional spaces.
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.