Preparation
Oil on linen
30 x 26 inches
Jae Young
Oil on linen
10 x 9 inches
Framed, $ 2,100.00
The Carpenter's Altar
Oil on linen
28 x 22 inches
Framed, $ 6,600.00
Unfinished Arrangement
Oil on linen
30 x 24 inches
Framed, $ 6,900.00
Three Green Fruits, study
Oil on board
6 x 7 3/4 inches
Unframed, $ 1,400.00 |
Abbozzo Gallery regrets to
say that Donna Surprenant died on Friday Feb. 6, 2009. She was a
talented painter and a fine person and we will miss her.
Donna Surprenant was born in Massachusetts, USA
in 1953. Since she first began painting over thirty years ago,
nature and art impel her to live with brush in hand. Her love for
the great masters of light throughout the centuries has drawn her to
museums across the country and Europe, and over the years she has
participated in numerous workshops to further develop her skills of
perceptual paintings.
In 1981 she moved to Canada to become a member
of Madonna House, a Catholic community of men and women where she resided as a
full-time painter. This rich experience of reflection and activity
gave her a unique environment within which to paint. The motifs for
still life come from an awareness of the beauty and silence offered
in an ordered arrangement of humble objects. Gathered from the
community’s kitchen or garden, they reveal an intimate world of
place and presence. She discovers in the process of painting their
complexity of colour and texture, their light and form, a visual
poetry which teaches her how to see with greater clarity and quiet
joy.
The gallery does have note cards and
calendars featuring Donna’s paintings available for sale on our
shopping page.
Biography
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Italian Landscapes
'Stilled
Life' Exhibition
Distilled Life Exhibition
Silence of Choice
Oil on linen
32 x 28 inches
Framed,
$ 7,300.00
Clare
Oil on linen
9 x 8 inches
Unframed, $ 1,700.00
Victoria
1978
Oil on linen
11 x 10 inches
Unframed, $ 2,100.00
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