Donna Steel, Contemporary Artist, Golden Artist Educator
www.donnasteel.co.nz

“I try and keep each artwork as original and unique as I can, and find the best way to do this is not to recreate it.” I am a Contemporary artist based in Christchurch, with a fascination for creating things. I love to paint and also love to sculpt, so have managed to combine these two passions with my Oil and mixed media artworks. “A Total Texture Junkie” is a good way to describe me. I enjoy incorporating many different types of texture and resin in my artworks. More recently I have moved toward Oils, and am finding this medium a total contrast from working with acrylics, although the two are very different mediums I really enjoy the variety that I get from working with each of them. My artwork can take up to several weeks to complete depending on the different processes and mediums that I use. A lot of my inspiration comes from just everyday moments of life, like a weekend away, a memory I may have, or driving down the road and seeing or hearing something. I have a real passion for the outdoors – nature in all its beauty, be it mountains, rivers, flowers, trees or butterflies. Photography is another passion of mine; which I tend to use the images I take as inspiration to create my artworks.

Over the last few years I have also developed a passion for tutoring art and have really enjoyed teaching Art Extension programs in Schools around Canterbury and teaching Community Adult Education Art Programs. I am really excited to announce that I along with 6 other NZ Artists, I have been selected by Golden Paints, USA www.goldenpaints.com to be one of their NZ Golden Artist Tutors. So over the we while I will be taking more Art Classes and Art Workshops, around Christchurch.

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For a limited time I am creating and selling mini Artworks of Iconic Chch buildings and Monarch Touch Stones to raise money for Christchurch Earthquake Fund..... for more information about this please contact me here : [email protected]