Ballerina Painting

DONNA ISHAM, Los Angeles-based fine artist, is recognized for her thought-provoking female-centric figuration along with her emotive abstract works that are all naked, raw, bold, and inspiring. Isham insists on crossing boundaries in her mediums as well utilizing Isham’s figurative abstract and expressionist paintings are created in oil, acrylic, charcoal, pastels, pencil, ink and pen. As a self-taught artist she has established herself as an evocative and gifted contemporary painter that portrays the strength of women and the vibrancy of life. Humanistic values permeate her work, from the resilience and compassion of reconstructing the female form to the energy and passion reflected in her expressionist musings. She creates life out of imagery with her bold coloration and gestural mark making, layered paint application and poignant iconography. Emotion emanates from the canvases. She wants the viewer to FEEL the art. Isham's paintings explore life and beauty in its many forms, sensuality and the ephemeral, suggesting the spiritual and ecstatic. Isham draws influence from her vast experience in the fashion, entertainment and music industries. Her paintings are part of private collections worldwide, exhibited at numerous galleries including New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, Paris, France, Vienna (Austria), and Nantucket, the St. Regis Hotel Summer Lodge (Aspen, CO.), Neuehouse (Venice Beach, CA.) and as featured as an arts educator witn non profit children's organization, Art Of Elysium, in Los Angeles.