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Dona LeCrone Walston Artist Statement Color is the underlying impetus to all of my creativity: singing luminous color is the goal.  My heart soars when I view sensuous shapes and color combinations in nature.  I often include complimentary colors in my paintings such as the contrast of blue against orange of a bird of paradise blossom.   My vision is generally a close up composition filling the page: striving for the feeling of the sandstone rocks surrounding and dwarfing me, expressing movement of water seen in the swirls on the surface and glimpsed depths below.  I am drawn to organic shapes and swirling movement.  I work from my own photos on watercolor paper and canvas in watercolor paints, acrylics, inks and colored pencils.  The great joy of my ‘job’ is the PROCESS of creating a painting.  This love has led me to eliminate the subject matter and create abstract paintings and collages.   Transparency and translucence has always been a feature of my paintings.  My new challenge is fused glass; I am translating my paintings to the media of glass and I am hooked on the vast possibilities and the beauty of glass. Resume Dona LeCrone Walston is a watermedia painting and fused glass artist with forty-four years experience working in watercolor, acrylic, collage, and fused glass fine art and jewelry.  With a Masters Degree from George Washington University, she has experience as a teacher and juror.   A signature member of National Watercolor Society, Western Federation of Watercolor Societies, Southwestern Watercolor Society and Texas Watercolor Society, she has volunteered over 25 years in the leadership of art organizations including serving as president of the Texas Watercolor Society. Publications include Watercolor Magazine, The Artists’ Magazine, Watercolor Magic, (Watercolor Artist now) article, ‘Paint What Comes Naturally’, Spring, 1997, and the book SPLASH 3, 105 OF America’s Best Contemporary Artists, 1994.  She edited the book Texas Watercolor Society: Fifty Years of Excellence in 1999. Dona has been accepted in over 75 juried exhibits and received many awards.  Recent honors include second place in the San Antonio Art League Museum annual exhibit, and finalist in The Artist Magazine Annual Competition.  She has shown her work in eight one man shows; most recently in the Ventana Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, and the Laredo Center for the Arts.  Dona has exhibited in many group exhibits such as the San Antonio Art League Museum Invitational, and the Society of Layerists in Multi Media. Her work can currently be seen in The Austin Street Gallery, Rockport, Texas and Gallery 1550, Kerrville, Texas and by contacting her.

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