Donna Balma
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Donna May Balma (born 1934 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a self taught[1] Canadian artist known for her drawings and paintings.[2]
Her work has been described as outsider,[3] visionary.[4][5] primitive and surreal[6] or psychic pop. Balma was a close friend and fellow artist[7] of Bernard Leach and Janet Leach of the Leach pottery movement of 1970's St. Ives Cornwall England. The "Lentis" series started in 1998 is largely based on Balma's experiences in England. This series of mainly drawings and some etchings depict an imaginary world populated by nuns and invented animals in complex swirling hives labyrinths, towers and aqueducts.
"Donna Balma's medieval looking etchings of busy scenes filled with birds, helicopters and peculiar subterranean creatures"[8]
″The artist now in her 70's can demonstrate a huge body of work from over the years that displays various elements: a gifted eye for painting faces of great character,an absorption in large, vivid abstracts and, perhaps the most unusual of all, the portrayal of a complete imaginary world called Lentis in which masses of tiny people are depicted in symbolic and sometimes absurd ways″[9]''
Much of Balma's life has been recorded in the autobiographical book Reconciliations.[10]
Awards
- 2003 Canada Council Travel Grant to New York
- 2000 Klein Award (Visual Arts) Sunshine Coast Arts Centre
- 1992 Gillian Lowndes Award (Visual Arts) Sunshine Coast Art Centre
- 1983 Canada Council Explorations Grant (Writing & Drawings)
Selected Exhibitions
- 2014 Metamorphosis sunshine coast art centre Canada
- 2014 Existential Elders Naniamo art gallery Canada
- 2013 Untamed Goldmoss gallery Robert's Creek Canada
- 2013 R.C.A.C. at Goldmoss gallery Robert's Creek Canada
- 2013 Beholding Beauty Artrom gallery Italy
- 2012 Obsession group show Sechelt Art Center Canada
- 2012 Dayism Gold Moss gallery Robert's Creek Canada
- 2012 North American Visionaries Museum of New South Wales Australia
- 2012 Body of Snow Gold Moss Gallery Robert's Creek Canada
- 2011 Seaside Center, Juried Art Show, group show 2011 Gold Moss Gallery, solo Portraits and group show Infinity
- 2011 Gallery Belage, 6th Annual Outsider Art Show, group show
- 2011 Gold Moss Gallery, solo Portraits and group show Infinity2011
- 2010 Gallery Belage, 5th Annual Outsider Art Show, group show
- 2010 Slaughterhouse Space Gallery group show Ordinary Miracles
- 2010 Leighdon Studio Gallery Group Show Continuum
- 2010 Oceanside Art Gallery, Parksville, BC – solo sculpture and painting
- 2006 Thrown Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery UBC
- 2005-2011 Annual Outsider Art Exhibition, Westhampton Beach, New York
- 2006-2007 Touring show Internal Guidance Systems[11] to ten galleries in Canada and US
- 2004-2008 Art Singuleur Show, Roquevaire, France – Annual
- 2003-2007 Society for Arts of Imagination[12] – London, Scotland, New York – Annual
- 2001-2002 American Visionary Art Museum Treasures of the Soul, Baltimore
References[edit]
- ↑ Balma, Donna (Spring 2001). "Raw Vision" (34): 10.
|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ↑ Balma, Donna (2000). "Raw Vision" (33).
|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ↑ Balma, Donna (1989–2002). Raw Vision Outsider Art Sourcebook. Raw Vision Limited. p. 205. ISBN 0954339304.
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- ↑ Balma, Donna (Fall 2001). "Raw Vision" (#36).
|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ↑ Balma, Donna (Oct 6, 2000). "Visions". Treasures of the Soul (Volume 6): 8.
|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ↑ Balma, Donna. "Donna Balma". http://www.artromgallery.com/guild_directory/g_donna_balma1.htm. Artrom Gallery Guild. External link in
|website=(help); Missing or empty|url=(help);|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ↑ Balma, Donna (2011). Thrown. Vancouver: Morris and Helen Bekin Art Gallery. p. 215. ISBN 978-0-88865-803-6.
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- ↑ Edward M. Gomez (10 July 2002). "Art Against the Odds: Creativity as Salve for Trauma". The New york times.
|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ↑ Degrass, Jan (28 September 2007). "Imaginary worlds reconciled". Coast Reporter.
|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ↑ Balma, Donna. Reconciliations. Lentis Books. ISBN 978-0-9737042-0-4.
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- ↑ Balma, Donna (Spring 2006). "Raw Vision" (54).
|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ↑ Balma, Donna (2004). "Raw Vision" (45).
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