Artists: Dee Donaldson
“I suppose contemporary, figurative painting is a way of describing it. I work in oil mostly, although I do dabble in other media. Artists often find it difficult to describe their own work, especially stylistically. This has, historically, been more the arena of critics and academics. I’m a painter. Painting is how I express myself. I’ll leave it up to those with the gift of words to describe, define or create labels for my work.
I guess what drives me to create is a search for a visual “language” that will best communicate what I need to communicate at a given time. This language is continually evolving as I progress. I use images symbolically at times and sometimes simply representation-ally. I have always been fascinated with different visual planes and layering. This is something that we take for granted in film and digital media; I’m drawn to exploring this on canvas. I love the physicality of painting and the tangibility of paint.” Dee