Donna Aldridge

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Donna Aldridge is an international award-winning painter with works in galleries and private and corporate collections in 25 countries.

Aldridge is well known for her broad, spacious landscapes and luscious still lifes, and continues to enjoy painting the figure and portrait. She is fluent in a broad range of mediums, though in recent years she has focused primarily in pastels and oils.

Color – in fascinating relationships – excites her most, played out on foundations of elegantly engineered compositions with dynamic movement and balances, leading the viewer on a journey through each piece. Additional hallmarks of Aldridge’s award-winning paintings include a strong sense of light and shadow, of atmosphere as well as richly applied pigment.

Aldridge’s 37”-wide oil painting was awarded Best of Show at the Third Annual Plein Air Event in

June 2003 in Kansas City. (She also took second place in 2002 and Best of Show in 2001 for the Body of Work.)

Other recent show awards include Pastel Painters of Cape Cod For Pastels Only on Cape Cod Annual National Exhibition the last two years; Southeastern Pastel Society 2002 10th International Show at Quinlan Visual Arts Center; Boulder Art Association 11th National Juried Exhibition & Sale 2002, First Place; Pastel Society of the West Coast 16th Annual International Open Exhibition; Pastel Society of New Mexico National Pastel Painting Exhibition; Connecticut Pastel Society Renaissance in Pastel National Exhibition and Pastel Painters of Ontario Sixth Annual Art International Exhibition.

Earlier awards include the Silver Medal of Honor for Pastel, Knickerbocker Artists Grand National Annual Exhibition at the Salmagundi Club, New York.