Donna Caulton’s paintings may be considered mandalas of the natural order. The story is of an earth in balance. In
traveling her imagined landscapes, a central sphere brings light, centering,
balance, and the intent of wholeness. The two balancing elements required for
sustaining earthly well being: the celestial source of light and spirit, and
the earth source of growth, cyclical change and reproduction, show up in
various ways in Donna’s work. She has
developed a visual language around the balance of masculine and feminine
elements, light and dark, death and rebirth, and in symbolic representation of
the cycles of life and reproduction within earth’s ancient story. Her acrylic paintings
are in bold colors, dense with representations of life forms and symbolic in
interpretation.
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AWARDS
2007,
Sept-Dec: Fellowship Grant
Recipient; Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Taos NM
2004,
March: First
Place Water Media Award, Gold Show, Clallam Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA
2003,
August: People’s
Choice Award, Master Gardener Exhibit, Port Townsend, WA
1990, June: Orleana Harsch
Award, NW Watercolor Society Annual Exhibit, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
1990, June: Watercolor
Award, Northwest Annual, Bellevue, WA
1989, May: Langnickel
Professional Painting Award, 49th Annual NW Watercolor
Society Exhibit, Bellevue, WA
1987-88:
National Exhibit Competition Winner, Artists’ Liaison National
Competition
1986, June: Professional
Painting Award, Pacific NW Arts and Crafts Fair, Bellevue,WA
FACULTY POSITIONS
2010-12: Northern NM College,
Espanola, NM
1986-88: Washington State
Artist-in-Residence, State Arts Commission, Olympia, WA
1985-86: Watercolor Instructor,
Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA
MEMBERSHIPS
2008-present: High
Road Artisans, Truchas, NM, President 2010-2012
2008-2010: TAO
(Taos Artist Organization)
2007: Corvidae
Printmaking Guild, Port Townsend WA
2006-2008: Seattle
Print Arts, Seattle, WA
1989 to
present: Signature Member
Northwest Watercolor Society
EDUCATION
1996, May: Master’s
Degree, MSN, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA
1981, May: Bachelor
of Arts, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
1981-‘83: Independent Study with
Seattle Artist, Karen Guzak
REPRESENTATION
2011-present Las Comadres Gallery, Taos, NM
2008-present: Walking
Woman Gallery, Penasco, NM
2008-present: Art
for the Heart, Penasco, NM
2008-present: High
Road Marketplace Gallery, Truchas, NM
COLLECTIONS
Steven
Keely Collection “Outside the
Lock”, “Blackberry Moon”, “Waiting Moon”, “Dream Basket”
King County
Arts Commission Portable Works Collection:
“Raven Moon”
Katherine
Baril Collection: “Forgotten Pocket”,
“Return of the Salmon Moon”, “Blackberry Moon II”
Louis
Mangione Collection: “First Flight”,
“Manta”, “Budding Moon”, “River of Dreams”, “Homage Rising”, “Earth Vessel”
Monoprints, #s 8, 9, and 10, “Night Peepers”, “Lunar Drum”, “Mountain Song”.
Todd Detwiler
Collection: “Fallen Moon Rising
II”, “Morning’s Web”, “Earth Vessel” Monoprint #12, “Valley of
the Ravens”, “Sanctuary II”, “Night Peepers”, “Planetary Ring-tone”
Cindy
Alford Collection: Mourning
Blanket”, “Reeds”, “Machu Pichu II”, “Clouds I”, “Keepers of the Family Jewels”
ONE and TWO PERSON
EXHIBITS
2012.
October “Images of
Mystery”, Las Comadres Gallery, Taos, NM
2009, 10,
11, 12: September: High Road Studio Tour,
DC Arts Studio, Chamisal, NM
2009,
August: “Abundance”, A TEACO, Albuquerque,
NM
2008,
October: People’s
Bank Exhibit, TAO, Taos, NM
2006,
April: Port Townsend Gallery, Port
Townsend, WA
1991,
April: “Recent Works”, Artspace Gallery,
Bay City, Oregon
1989,
February: “From the Seed”, Linda Meier
Gallery, Seattle, WA
1987,
October: “New
Moons”, Steven Keely Gallery, Seattle, WA
1987,
April: “Watercolors”, Hank’s by the Lake,
Seattle, WA
1986
November/December: “Solo”, Kid’s Center,
Seattle, WA
1986,
August: “New Artists”, Seattle Art Museum
Rental and Sales Gallery, Seattle, WA
1986, June: “Recent Works”, Community Arts Center, Ellensburg, WA
1986, January: “Recent Works”, Viking Union Gallery, Western Washington
University, Bellingham, WA
1985,
September: “Lunar Tapestries”, King County Arts Commission Gallery,
Seattle, WA.
1985,
March: “Grid as Matrix”, Steven Keely
Gallery, Seattle, WA
1983,
April: “Watercolors”, Central Oregon
Community College Gallery, Bend, OR
1982,
April: “Watercolors”, Blue Heron Gallery,
Vashon, WA
PUBLICATIONS
2011: Taos
Fall Arts Festival Publication
2009: “Edible
Santa Fe”, winter edition, “Feast your Eyes”, pp. 47, 48.
2009, 10,
11: High
Road Art Tour Brochure
2008: Sound
Healing: Vibrational Healing with Ohm Tuning Forks, by Marjorie de Muynck, page 7 and color insert.
2008,
August: TAO studio tour
catalog
2008:
March: The
Watercolorist’s Guide to Exceptional Color, by Jan Hart, (represented in discussion of Oriental papers used for watercolor
techniques)
2005,
October: “Art Port Townsend”
festival poster and studio tour brochure cover.
1990, ‘85,
‘86: Northwest
Watercolor Society Exhibition Catalogs
1987,
Spring: Artists’
Liaison Catalog
1984,
December: CALYX, A Journal of
Art and Literature by Women, volume 8, number 3
JURIED AND
INVITATIONAL EXHIBITS
2012,
January: Las Comadres Gallery,
Taos, NM
2011,
October: “Taos Select”, Taos
Convention Center, Taos, NM
2011, July: “Mining
the Unconscious II: SF University of Art and Design, Santa Fe, NM
2011, Feb,
Mar: 18 Days, NM Women Artists,
Munoz Waxman Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2011,
February: Small Art for a Big
Heart, Penasco, NM
2011,
February: Miniatures Exhibit,
Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos NM.
2010,
Spring: High
Road Artists Exhibit, Sugar Nymph’s Bistro, Penasco, NM
2009,
October: Town Hall Exhibit,
Taos, NM
2009, May: “Summer
of Love”, Art Plaza, Taos NM
2009,
March: Miniatures
Exhibit, Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, NM
2008,
October: Preview Exhibit TAO
tour; Kachina Lodge, Taos NM
2008,
August: National
Watercolor Exhibit, Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos NM
2008, July: Regional
Peace Exhibit, Sugar Nymph’s Bistro, Penasco, NM
2008, April: “Venus
on the Half-shell”, Touchstone Gallery, Taos, NM
2007,
January: NWWS Signature Members
Exhibit, Snohomish Arts Center, Everett, WA
2006,
December: “Small Expressions V”,
Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA
2006, June: “Earth,
Air, Fire and Water”, Port Townsend, WA, juror, Jake Seniuk
2005,
December: “Small Expressions IV”,
Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA.
2004,
December: “Small Expressions III”,
Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA
2004,
October: “Art Port Townsend
Annual Exhibit”, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA
2004,
March: “Gold
Show” (award), Klallam Arts Center Gallery, Port Angeles, WA
2003,
December: “Small Expressions II”,
Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA
2003, August: “Master
Gardener Conference Exhibit” (award), Fort Warden, Port Townsend,
WA
1993, June: “Northwest
Watercolors”, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA
1992,
October: “Images of War”, OK
Hotel, Seattle, WA
1991,
August: NW
Watercolor Society Signature Members Exhibit, North Central Washington Museum, Wenatchee, WA
1991, July: Group
exhibit, Artspace Gallery, Bay City, Oregon
1990, June: 50th
Annual NW Watercolor Society Exhibit, Stonington
Gallery, Seattle, WA
1990, May: NW
Watercolor Society Signature Members Exhibit, Arts Center Gallery, Everett, WA
1989, June: 49th
Annual NW Watercolor Society Exhibit, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
1989, May: Printmaker’s
Exhibit, Chandler Gallery, Wellfleet MA
1989,
April: NW Printmakers’ Invitational, Lisa Harris Gallery,
Seattle, WA
1989,
March: “The
Rest of the Northwest”, Broadway Market, Seattle, WA
1989,
March: Annual
Women’s Exhibit, Linda Meier’s Gallery, Seattle, WA
1988,
May-Sept: Group Exhibition,
Chandler Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
1988,
May-July: 48th Annual NW
Watercolor Society Exhibit, Bellevue Art Museum,
Bellevue, WA
1988,
April: Art Liaison Spring Exhibit, Scottsdale, AZ
1988,
March: National
Watercolor Society Invitational Exhibit, LA Artcore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1988,
January: Art Liaison Exhibit,
Gallery Imago, San Francisco, CA
1987-88: National Watercolor
Society Traveling Exhibit, Seattle, WA, Vancouver, BC
1987,
October: Art Liaison Fall
Exhibit, Scottsdale Arizona
1987, July: David
Brown Galley, Provincetown, MA
1987,
Jan/Feb: National Watercolor
Society 66th Annual Exhibit, Muckenthaler Center, Fullerton,
Ca
1986,
December: “Celebration: Especially
for Children”, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
1986,
Summer: King County Arts
Commission New Acquisitions, Public Arts Space, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA
1986, June: “Watercolors
West”, Missoula Museum of Art, Missoula, MT
1985,
June-Aug: Oregon/Washington
Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Maryhill Museum, Goldendale,
WA
1985, June: “Reclaiming
our Images”, National Women’s Studies Conference, Seattle, WA
1985, June: 45th
Annual NW Watercolor Society Exhibit, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
1984,
April-June: 44th Annual NW
Watercolor Society Annual Exhibit, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
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