Art Exhibition: Donna Davis, Earth and Sky

The landscape paintings of Donna Davis will be on display at the Norfolk Library for the month of June in an exhibition entitled “Earth and Sky.” Formerly a high school/college math teacher and now a resident of Winsted, Donna has a studio at Whiting Mills. Her paintings have been juried into the Nor’easter at the New Britain Museum of American Art twice, the Granby Land Trust Art Show at Lost Acres Vineyards, and a Small Works Juried Show at Five Points Gallery in Torrington. Her work has also been exhibited at the Gallery on the Green in Canton, The Gallery of Art and Healing at Bellevue Hospital in New York, and at Second Home in Winsted. 

Donna writes:

“I’ve been painting since there was an art school on the top floor of the Brooklyn Museum. In addition, I took classes at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Cooper Union, the New School, and Parson’s School of Design, all while I was working in NYC, teaching college math in high school and high school math in college.  There is a strong relationship between math and art. Math is largely about the relationships of variables.  For example, motion, stillness, and colors affecting one another make the world of the canvas vibrant and alive. 

I have been working at my studio at Whiting Mills in Winsted for the past sixteen years. Most of my paintings are oil on canvas, with an occasional acrylic or mixed medium piece.  I often use a photo as a jumping off point for the painting.”