Powell River Sunset Watercolour on Paper 16 x 20 in. |
Truck On Saltspring Island Watercolour on Paper 11 x 15 in. |
Hollow Tree Watercolour on Canvas 15 x 12 in. | |||
Path To Comox Beach Watercolour on Paper 15 x 11 in. |
Poppies Watercolour on Paper 12 x 15 in. |
Sparkle Watercolour on Paper 16 x 12 in. | |||
Morning At Buckley Bay Watercolour on Paper 12 x 15 in. |
Light In The Trees Watercolour on Paper 15 x 12 in. |
Little Tug Watercolour on Paper 11 x 15 in. | |||
Textured Beach Watercolour on Canvas 16 x 20 in. |
Winter On The Fraser River Watercolour on Paper 12 x 15 in. |
Flowers On A Kitchen Table Watercolour on Paper 15 x 11 in. | |||
Hornby Island Sunset Watercolour on Paper 16 x 20 in. |
Sparkle Watercolour on Fabric 41 x 32 in. |
Arbutus Tree Fibre on Cotton 37 x 33 in. | |||
Pomegranates Fibre on Cotton 24 x 29 in. | Onions Fibre on Cotton 23 x 28 in. |
Moon Light Fibre on Cotton 27 x 30 in. | |||
Fall Silhouette Fabric on Cotton 46 x 37 in. |
River Roots Fabric on Cotton 28 x 23 in. |
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Donna Polos
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Phone Number: 604 438-2245 Email Address: donnapolos@hotmail.com Website: https://www.DonnaPolos.com Click here to send an email to Donna Polos |
| Biography: | |
| I am a retired elementary school teacher and an active member of the Federation of Canadian Artists. I am a self taught artist. I work in fabric and I am a watercolour painter. I began working with fabric as a child. I knitted, rug hooked, embroidered, wove, macramed, sewed my own wardrobe and quilted. Twenty years ago, I started to take art lessons (drawing, watercolour painting). As I developed my watercolour painting, I started to marry the two mediums together. What I learned about watercolour, I started to apply to fabric. Sometimes my watercolours are catalysts for my fabric art. Using learned watercolour techniques, I paint images on cotton. I often use glue resist, paint pouring, chalk pastels, sandpaper transfers, heliographic painting, stencilling, acrylic gels, and fabric crayons. I embellish my work with tulle, sequins, beads embroidery, metallic threads, yarns and found objects. All of my work is hand quilted and finished with a sleeve in the top and bottom (so that the art work can be hung on a wall). The leftover scraps of fabric are made into wearable art. I paint a variety of subjects moving from one subject to the next. I get bored working in the same theme. However, when I stand back and look, I have really painted in many themes. I paint figures, still lifes, landscapes, leaves, buildings, trees, rocks, flowers, and I often make social comments about the world through cloth game boards and using objects as metaphors. I often paint fabric and paper side by side. Recently, I have experimented with watercolour on canvas. I work as a visiting artist in the schools and an artist in residence. I have created 5 quilt projects in the Burnaby Schools, 2 mural projects, a Bird and Tree quilt with the Ecology Centre In Stanley Park, and a community art quilt at Bonaccord Elementary in Surrey. I've taught fabric painting to adults and children at Leigh Square in Poco. |
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| Fibre Art Network FAN www.fibreartnetwork.com Artstarts (in schools) www.artstarts.com Federation Of Canadian Artists |
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Solo Exhibitions 2018 Escape From The City (May) Plaskett Gallery New Westminster 2016 Seaing Red and Green (Sept) Leigh Square Port Moody 2014 Natural Fibres (Nov.) Silk Purse West Van. 2013 Seasoned Fibres (March) Gallery at New West Arts Council 2012 Flourishing Fibres (April) Gallery at Leigh Square Port Coquitlam 2009 Painted Threads (April) Gallery at Hycroft University Womens Club |
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| To reach Donna Polos please call (604) 438-2245 or email donnapolos@hotmail.com | |
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| Fibre Art Network (FAN) FAN is a group of Western Canadian fibre artists. | |
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