ANNIE DONOHUE

I began drawing at the age of 4 with a love for detail and precision. I continued pursuing art throughout school until deciding to switch my focus to poetry in college. Poetry opened up a world of expression that wasn’t bound by the constraints of realism I had experienced with visual art.

I put both poetry and visual art aside to have children but didn’t stay away for long. After a few years away I picked up figure drawing again, playing with a looser, more expressive form of drawing than I had before. I fell in love with how line could express mood with such accuracy and wanted to branch out to something altogether new for me. In 2018 I began painting and found abstraction to be a perfect blend of poetry and drawing. It has acted as a translator, helping to bring form to ideas that can’t quite be spoken.

Growing up in Springfield, MO I have always been acutely aware of the changing moods of weather and seasons. As someone deeply affected by my environment, I’ve often thought about the relationship between self and world. That space between can be expansive or constricted, nebulous or severe, and I like to use color and line to express these variations. Abstraction has allowed me to paint experience, those momentary states of existence that too often go unnoticed. My paintings are an attempt at memorializing the ephemeral.