Lois Donaghey

Originally from the small California Sierra village of Blue Canyon, CA I now reside in the San Francisco Bay Area where I make artwork influenced by my childhood and life-long experiences engaging up close and personal with Nature, introspection, deep meditations (or prayer), and our collective Soul. The paintings I make are definitely abstract expressionistic in style and I often 'find' them lingering in the corners of one of my deeper meditation sessions. I love color, form, line and opposites! And, I am greatly influenced by my favorite master artist Joan Mitchell.

San Francisco Art Institute, Studio Painting and Professional Artist Intensives 1988 thru 2019
Humboldt State University, MA Major Psychology Research Analysis and Design/School Psychology
University of California Davis, BS Major: Psychology Math Emphasis (statistics); Fine Arts Minor

Solo Exhibitions:
-2024 – Current - Resident Artist 2017-present / Healdsburg Center for the Arts - Healdsburg, United States 2024 – Current
-2023 - First Church Solo / First Church Gallery - Santa Rosa, United States
-2023 - Salon Solo Exhibit / San Francisco Women Artists' Gallery - San Francisco, United States
-2023 - Dutton Goldberg Winery / Dutton Goldberg Winery - Sebastopol, United States

Group Juried Exhibitions:
-San Francisco Women Artists’ Gallery Hue & Me May, 2024
-San Francisco Women Artists’ Gallery Spring Lush March 2024
-DeYoung (museum) Open 2023, San Francisco, CA
-San Francisco Women Artists’ Gallery Embracing Nature May, 2023
-San Francisco Women Artists’ Gallery “Reflection”July 2023
-Sebastopol Center for the Arts “Color of Water” Juror AWARD
-San Francisco Women Artists’ Gallery “Edge of Abstraction” November 2022 Juror’s Choice AWARD
-San Francisco Women Artists’ Gallery “Intense Color” May 2022; Juror’s Choice AWARD
-Triton Museum of Art’s statewide 2D Art Competition & Exhibition-Santa Clara, CA; 2021
-Falkirk Cultural Museum-San Rafael, “Summer 2021 Juried Show”
-Crocker/Kingsley National Art Competition Biennial 2021
-San Francisco Women Artists’ Gallery “Scapes” April, 2021.
-San Francisco Women A...