Donna Blichasz

Artist Statement

2010

Shape and form are found all around you at any particular time everywhere you go.  I am constantly finding unique shape and form in the smallest things and sometimes the combination of two things placed together.  They play a very important role in each and every one of my paintings.

One of my favorite things to do is to distort the human figure; sometimes it manifests itself in a more abstract entity and sometimes resembling a more natural human form.  I combine these contortions often with the reality of my own life, the people I know, the things I see, the occurrences of my everyday life.  I distort these happenings until they become their own entity and take on their own often-unrecognizable reality. I use a wide variety of color, borders and outlines, allowing the forms themselves a more individual and lively personality that I feel is more fully experienced when dealt with in this way.

My paintings often have a whimsical atmosphere that is mixed with a degree of childlike enthusiasm.  The ideas and images found in my work, are far from reality yet at times seem as though they could exist.  In fact they do exist, in my imagination and in their own reality, a reality that harbors a balance between extreme abstraction and the realistically unreal.

The imagination has the ability to see things in a way that the eyes are not able to.  In my work there is no combination of things that cannot be placed together; my imagination is able to be released, to become a reality on the canvas.