Donna Drouin is a printmaker, poet and painter whose work stems from an almost daily plein air practice of using inks, watercolours, pencils and found natural media. These observations are from places that she knows and loves in the surrounding landscape l she tries to capture an essence of being present in reworded spaces. The threshold of wild and domesticated places which bare the marks of human existence, from the bailing string repairing fences, wonky telegraph poles, to the ridge and furrow of oxen and farmer. She explores the Narrative of the Delphic marks of ancient river beds, where nature rubs uneasy shoulders with the human and birds watch the rhythm of life. Those marks and repeating forms become the bedrock of her studio practice. Where she pushes, pulls and manipulates the marks and words through the processes of collage, printmaking and painting. Donna is mindful of the environment in her work, and is constantly looking at ways of reducing her impact in her work, experimenting with making her own pigments as part of the process of carving, scratching and inking mirroring the drilling, broadcasting and harvesting of the landscape, the current print works are exploring using repeating motifs of bold abstracted bird forms containing and overlooking the topographies that they inhabit.
Donna has travelled the UK and Ireland delivering contemplative workshops sharing slow practices of making and printmaking.
