The Lost Children Of Lentis introduces the viewer to another group of Balma’s imaginary Land of Lentis inhabitants. Like lost children in every society, they seem serious, raw, suspicious and withdrawn - naked to the oppressive larger community. While fire gazing into the burning pit of her forest home, Balma saw the burned corner of a milk carton, charred and curled. This carton became a unique, three-dimensional feature of the Lost Children of Lentis.  In these small 12” x 5” works, Balma glued, peeled and painted many layers of paper to achieve the textured finish.

Donna Balma spent her married life in England with her husband who was a potter at the Bernard Leach Pottery, and returned to her birthplace, British Columbia (BC) Canada, to build herself a studio and home in the Pacific Northwest rainforest of Mt. Elphinstone. She has established herself as a prolific working artist whose work has been variously described as naïve, singuleur, outsider, visionary, classical, folk, cosmic pop, amongst others. Her work has been exhibited in many countries. In 2007 she published Reconciliation: the life and work of Donna Balma.  The book recounts the story of her place in the Canadian and British avant-garde art world from her Bohemian roots in the late 1950s to her current Visionary work.

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