Donna O Sullivan

Donna O’Sullivan is a Northamptonshire-based painter whose work is driven by emotional intensity, transformation, and the chaos of everyday life. With a background in movement and community health, her creative practice emerged as a response to stress and burnout — a way to transmute frustration into fierce, expressive colour.

Her work explores the edge between breakdown and breakthrough. Donna paints in layers — instinctively, urgently — creating abstract pieces that reflect inner pressure, personal rebellion, and unexpected beauty. Her palette often leans into bold contrasts: golds against blacks, storms against silence.

Recurring themes in her work include spiritual unrest, dream imagery, and the alchemical idea that destruction is necessary for transformation.

This isn’t polite painting — it’s emotionally raw, defiantly alive, and completely hers.