April 2010
Launching Novalis Prints, photographic and Giclee prints for worldwide promotion
Currently Running
Online Exhibition and Workshop. Isolation. Who Are You. @ www.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/donnasouthern
Currently Running
Online Exhibition and blog. Trees and the Unconscious Mind @ www.a-n.co.uk/artists talking/ donnasouthern
2009
The Tate Britain. Guest author for The Turner Prize with Online debate
2008
The Counting House, Eastbourne. A Solo Exhibition On Reflection. Who are You?
2007
The Thebes Gallery,Lewes. The Eastbourne Group
2006
South Gallery, Eastbourne. The Eastbourne Group
2006
The Dairy Gallery. Eastbourne Group Show
2006
Brighton Open Houses, Pumpkin House, Kemp Town
2005
The Towner Art Gallery. Eastbourne. The Eastbourne Group
2004
The Towner Art Gallery. The Eastbourne Group
1999
The Hawth Theatre, Crawley. A Four man Show
2001
The Towner Art Gallery. The Eastbourne Group
2000
The Towner ArtGallery. The Eastbourne Group
2007
Brighton Open Houses, Pumpkin House, Kemp Town, Brighton
2002
The Heiffer Gallery. FWAP
2005
Brighton Open Houses, Pumpkin Progs, Kemp Town
2003
St James Church. FWAP
2002
The Jersey Galleries. FWAP
1999
The towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne. The Eastbourne Group
1998
The Mall Gallery. Pall Mall. London. Degree Show
Winner Badiot Guardian Foodwriter .
Community project with all age groups.
B A Hons in Fine Art from Northbrook College.
Childrens Painting workshop est. 2000
Published: 5 Women Artists.
Plus Article On Artist: VivaLewes, vol 81 pg 18.
Chairperson for the Eastbourne Group 2007-8.
Qualified Teacher status and member of GTC.
Partner for The Big Draw. CRB
Novalis Prints
Welcome to my business venture where I am launching 35 of my unique paintings to the world. Please fill in a contact form and leave your comments which will help me to decide which 10 images are your favorites,which will be available to buy in print on-line.
An A4 open edition photographic print can be purchased for £9.95 or a Giclee print signed starting from £35.00
Novalis, meaning ‘newly ploughed field’ or more specifically ‘one who has opened up new land’. Full of pure religious feeling and philosophical depth embodied in Donna’s existence and communicated through her paintings and reviews.
To cultivate the earth, to baptise and humanise it by ‘Love’. To enable the earth and her people, to be raise to the highest power, allowing the productive and creative ideas to grow.
I am an example of human possibilities: sometimes this ‘possibility’ appears different from our present state, so pure and angelical in thought, so transparent and lacking in personality in the lower sense, we can hardly believe that this is human.
I also juxtapose this with the inadequate, dire, incumbent, reality I face as I am human, flawed and destructive. I am therefore truly human and this makes me elusively terrifying. ‘I’, as Rilke speaks of in his poetry: ‘We, who are hardly human, not fully real, as we identify to God, and Godness (goodness) aspects through social development, yet heathen in our disgust of our own idolatry’, I respond by reaching in turn to a more honest response to humanity through the Primordial mind, back to the essence of the limbic brain, of man before evolution. Back to truth of love in existence and the need for nothing more.
