Demonstration

Because watercolor is a reverse process that involves layering that is sometimes difficult to understand, I will provide samples that demonstrate the way the process unfolds.

Donna J. Caulton – Watercolor Painting

190 Moa Hill Road
Port Townsend, WA 98368
360-379-5465
donnajc4@earthlink.net
Website: http://donnacaulton.com/
By appointment during rest of year

During my childhood in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, I had minimal exposure to art and creative ideas. It wasn’t until I moved West in the early 70s, and had raised my own children, that I discovered the artist that lived inside me. After a very short foray into theatre arts, and a little longer excursion into expressions in clay, on the magic beaches of the Olympic Peninsula, I discovered the world of two-dimensional image making, and have been held captive by it ever since.

My work is mostly done in watercolor or printmaking techniques. The watercolors are created in a layered process that involves handmade papers, fibers and some collage elements. The results are fabric-like in appearance, with a familiar palette and subtle coloration. I do etchings in small editions, usually of 20 or 30. The plates are made by exposing a photosensitive surface to light and developing them non-toxically. In addition, I enjoy the process of making mono prints.

From the beginning, the idea of balance has been the underlying focus of my expressive process. The natural world inspires me, and the everyday deaths and rebirths of existence provide the matrix of my imagery. This finds expression through the contrast of light against dark, amorphous against geometric, the new changing into the old changing into the new, as the moon goes from new to full to new, as the autumn leaves become the winter ground cover, become the life-giving summer soil, become the summer blooms.

Most recently, my work concerns itself with the earth’s resonance, that regular pulsing earth rhythm that sustains and nourishes us all. Given the stresses of modern times, my hope is that my work will serve as a reminder of our source of nourishment, and the mutual give and take needed to sustain the earth’s pulse in its natural rhythm and consequently our own.

Directions 

When leaving Port Townsend, turn right at the Ford dealership onto Hwy 20 toward Sequim. Just before Hwy 101, turn left onto Moa Hill Road (at Valley View Motel sign). (If coming from Hwy 101, turn onto Hwy 20 and turn right at Valley View Motel sign onto Moa Hill Road.) Go up hill, curve to left. Number 190 is on the right.