Encounter With Angels

Donna celebrates 40 years of adventure with her husband Tony

Donna Pope's impressionist works are best described as positve and uplifting. Her work has taken on a spiritual direction that has touched the lives of many. The stories shared have touched this artist as well.

Donna began her career as an Interior Designer, enjoying the challenge of balancing space, color, pattern and texture. She worked in the field for only a few years when she decided to return to the classroom but this time as an artist.

Resuming studies at Dominican University and later, The School of the Art Institute Chicago, she explored many different mediums, including printmaking. It was during this time that Pope started to experiment with the monoprint technique. She said, "painting on a plexi-glass plate rather than a canvas created a sense of freedom and flow, allowing my imagination to explore the images as they emerged on the plate and later onto my paper". Pope also added, "there are often many surprise nuances and effects, using this type of printmaking, that would be hard to accomplish by painting with brush alone".