TEACHING

                                                                                      PAINTING A DEMO

                                                                         PAINTING AT LUCCA, ITALY

DONNA B. TRENT      

Gig Harbor, WA. 98335    email  donnatrent@donnatrentart.com

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BIOGRAPHY:

Artist Donna Trent grew up on a Skagit Valley farm in the Pacific Northwest, near Mt. Vernon, WA.  She is a graduate of Seattle University, where she was awarded a BA in psychology, and an area major in art.  She has since studied under several well-known artists, and considers her painting as an on-going challenge of practical on the job learning.

Donna has continued her studies at Balboa Park, San Diego; Tacoma Community College; Coupeville Arts Center, Whidbey Island; Santa Fe, N. M.; and Morro Bay Calif.  She has taken workshops from Ned Mueller, Nancy Rankin, Bob Landry, Joyce Pike, Howard Carr, Eric Wiegardt, Charles Movalli, Ann Templeton, Bill McEnroe, Susan Ogilvie, Bill Reese, Ben Konis, Kitty Wallis, Anne Heywood, Bob Rohm, Richard McDaniel, Richard McKinley and Doug Dawson.

Alla prima plein air painting is most satisfying for the artist, when there is a limited time to capture with scene in the available light and this quick method also gives her paintings a lively feeling of expression.  She also finds great satisfaction working from live models for portrait and figures.  She comments that still lifes are becoming an interesting and challenging subject for studio painting during the winter days.  She works well in several media, including watercolor, oil, pen and ink, pastels, charcoal and clay sculpture.

The artist resides with her family in Gig Harbor, and spends many hours sketching and painting the Harbor and surrounding areas.

ARTIST'S STATEMENT:

Painting with oils and pastels allows me to put down on a painting surface wonderfully brilliant colors, and contrasting values.  Using broad strokes with smaller textured lines gives my work a tension and a lively quality that one finds in nature.  Painting plein air allows me to interpret nature as a glowing complex scene of shapes and colors intermingled.  Excitement is transmitted from the eye to the hand to the painting.   When one views my paintings I hope they can feel the emotion and excitement that emanates from the flat surface of the painting making it into a viable three dimensional work of art.

COLLECTIONS:

West Coast Paper Company, Permanent Collection, 2007

Pierce County Arts Commission, Permanent Collection, 2006 and 2007

Oregon State University, Corvallis, Permanent Collection, Two Purchase Awards

Bill Davis, Superior Court Judge, Siskiyou County Court House, Yreka, CA

Dr. Christal Duncan, Yreka, CA

Naicong and Bill Miller, Bainbridge Island, WA.

CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS

 Oil and pastel classes at studio

 Workshops, one to three days, oil and  pastel, local and regional

 One Day a Month workshops starting in January 2008

 Tuscany Workshop, September and October, 2008

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

Commissioner, Gig Harbor Cultural Arts Commission, appointed, 2003-2004

Northwest Pastel Society, Signature Member, Past President

Peninsula Art League, Past President

Oil Painters of America

West Coast Pastel Society

Pastel Society of America

Master Impressionist of America

Plein Air Painters of Washington

ART RELATED ACTIVITES:

Open Studio Tour 2004, 2007

Juror, Four Art League Exhibit, Iron Works, Tacoma, 2006

Juror, Olympia Art League Regional 13 Counties Exhibit, 2004

 Winner’s Circle, Sidney Gallery, Port Orchard, 2004     

One person show, Kimball Gallery, 2002

Open Studio Tour 2000-2001

Winner’s Circle, Sidney Gallery, Port Orchard, 1999