“I have a huge imagination that is inspired by anything that comes within my vision. I see beauty in absolutely everything. Some of my work is thought to be abstract but to me it is not - it is representational of points of perception that range from cellular to universal.

As one of my creations unfolds, it offers the next possibility, which soon becomes another part of my visionary cosmology. The cosmic, visceral explosions in earlier paintings transmuted into sacred nature based tapestries. In the presence of these sacred works, I realized the path that led me to my most current paintings of the personal spiritual symbology that is both ancient and futuristic.

After years of creating dense, deeply felt and intense representation of vision, I now present a simple, commanding secret language, as mysterious to me as it is to others who have told me it is reminiscent of the Rosetta Stone, runes or other lost languages


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Gallery Comment :: Cosmic pop... Donna Balma's recent work is big, bold, pure painting. Painting that begs to be examined, explored, interpreted. She invents an object, and gets down to representing it in all its intricate and contorted splendor, making it important by surrounding it, at times, with vibrating, gestural frames. She is compelled to reveal it all from what seems to be the inside out, exposing the visceral inner workings. There is no apparent resorting to symbolic codification here, Donna builds in detailed gestures, engaging unexpected elements, that move the eye around the painting, teasing and stimulating attempts to piece together the whole. The result is a strong, sure and mature vision. To view these images on a computer monitor is, of course, limited, and one can only imagine the impact of these paintings in their actual size.