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Donna Slade

Wake Forest, NC
919-554-4204
website: donnasladeart.com
email: dsladeart@gmail.com

Donna Slade has enjoyed an award-winning career in Commercial Advertising and Design; but her true love lies in painting. For the past 13 years Donna has worked in pen & ink and colored pencil, but for the last few years she has worked mainly in soft pastel.

Her portfolio is impressive in its depth and scope of subject matter, ranging from still life’s that take a close-up look at the beauty or ordinary objects, to landscapes that capture the grace and rhythms of nature. I seek to provide a place for the viewer to find curiosity and appreciation for the process of creation.

“Creativity is harnessing universality
and making it flow through your eyes.”
-Peter Koestenbaum

A sense of energy is important to me, so I pay great attention to the composition of the painting. It is in the dynamic relationship among the various components around a center of interest that creates vitality. When I am working I lose all sense of time and place. I experience a state of consciousness quite common among artist but nonetheless magical to me. It is being in the flow, engaged in a task that occupies me fully while freeing me to channel the creative gift.

Donna has exhibited nationally and her work is included in many corporate and private collections. Donna is represented locally by the Cardinal Art Gallery; Raleigh, NC, and the Sunflower Gallery and Studio in Wake Forest, NC. Donna is a Charter as well as Signature member of the Colored Pencil Society of America.

News items for Donna Slade

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Donna Slade

Upcoming Zoom Presentations for 2023

April 8th – Terrilynn Dubreuil
May 13th – Fred Fielding
June 10th – Regina Burchette
July 8 – Jane Steelman: “How to manage your PSNC google page”

Each meeting will from 10 am – Noon US Eastern Time

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Shows / Workshops

6th Annual PURE COLOR: Online International Juried Exhibition of Pastel Paintings
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Two Upcoming PSNC Member Shows at Ambleside Gallery and the Imperial Arts Center
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Recent News / Announcements

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Member News, Kim M. Long

“Lazy Bun” Paint-Along, on Zoom, with Rita Kirkman

Celebration of Life Service for Helen Knapp

Member News, Betty Hendrix

“Fun with Feathers!” Paint-Along with Rita Kirkman, on Zoom

Arizona Pastel Artists Association’s 2023 Open International Exhibition

“Don Keyfurry” Paint-Along with Rita Kirkman, on Zoom

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