Donna Carver’s vivid palette and impasto brush work lend a contemporary impressionist style to her paintings.  Admirers of her work recount memories, echoed in her paintings, while others feel momentrily transported to the vistas before them. Fleeting encournters that induldge our spriit even if only for ...A Moment in Time.

 

Her paintings relate, largely to the coastal waters and shorelines, where she has lived. From the Atlantic coast, where she was raised, to the Pacific coast she has called home, since 1969. Both, have greatly influenced her life and her art.

 

Of herself she says-"My creative soul has always been rejuvenated by the coastal waters" Inspired by its strenght and energy, many of her paintings are interpertations of her original photographs, travel and experiences. These paintings depict the force and unrelenting intensity of coastal waters while revealing an essence that surrounds you and draws you to it.

 

While teaching at California State University Northridge, she loved placing her graduate students for internships in Ventura and Santa Barbara – it gave her the opportunity to drive along the coast and rejuvenate her soul.

After an early retirement, she moved to Ventura and began studying painting seriously with such artists as Phyl Doyon, Julia and Gail Ayers, Jackie Cavish and Hiroko Yoshimoto.

 

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