Donnalda is a very creative person. She started painting at age 3 by painting the walls of her father's studio with his paints squeezed directly from the
tubes. During the 60's she discovered collage, paper crafts and costume jewelry using colored wire and beads.
Moving to the Salton Sea Outback brought her to the natural elements of grasses and twigs, so she made baskets and sold them in several galleries. In 1999
she came back to the "city". She had a working studio and retail gallery at Palapas of Araby Cove, a landscape nursery and artists cooperative in Palm
Springs, California. Still painting and concentrating on paper arts, she wants to share it all with a wider audience.
Now in a new location at Cabot's Pueblo Museum in Desert Hot Springs, California, she has created a new class structure to give more students a chance to
become the artist they want to be. She also demonstrates her magic with watercolors during the season at this Historic Site.
Artist's Statement:
These little watercolors are part of an ongoing series painted "plein-aire" at Cabot's Pueblo Museum in Desert Hot Springs. I love the peaceful almost
dreamlike ambience there. I like to paint on a 9 x 12 watercolor block so I can sit wherever I want to and make watercolors. I have used a limited palette
and the natural colors that the Pueblo so beautifully conveys.
