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Artist Statement:
Art has been a main thread
throughout my life. It has
woven through 23 years of
advertising agency and
photojournalism experience and
has resulted in the
development of my personal
dimension of oil painting -
especially in the painting of
incredible undersea
environments and marine life.
This connecting thread of art
has made me very aware of the
color and light in the
undersea world of scuba
diving.
I've been a scuba diver since
1976; an underwater
photographer since 1983; and a
full-time fine arts oil
painter since 1998. In
addition to lots of dive
adventures from Point Lobos to
the Monterey Wharf, I've been
all over the world to pursue
scuba diving adventures -
Papua New Guinea, Palau, the
Great Barrier Reef, Truk
Lagoon, Fiji, Cayman, Turks &
Caicos, Bahamas, Roatan,
Barbados, and more. At each
location the underwater marine
life and scenes were
photgraphed and sketched.
Looking at the resulting
slides with an artist's eye
has always been a
disappointment. Underwater
flash photography can cause
garish shadows in images.
Natural light is too dim to
show any color on the exposed
film besides blue (especially
in these Northern California
waters). The deeper a diver
goes, the more ...
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Artist Galleries:
Plaza Arts, Healdsburg, CA.
Galeria Tesoros, Healdsburg,
CA
Artworks, San Francisco
Kumquat Gallery, San
Francisco...
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Artist Reviews:
"Ling Cod" selected for poster
promoting:
Bodega Bay Fisherman's
Festival, April, 2003
California Diving News - Cover
Art
December, 2002 issue...
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Collections:
Coming Soon!
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Exhibitions for Donna Schaffer:
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Digital Annex, San Francisco, CA 1/03
Four Artist Show, Cloverdale Library, Cloverdale, CA 9/02
Solo Show, Cafe Venue, Market Street, San Francisco, CA 8/02
Scapes of the Land, Sea, Mind, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol 11/01
Solo Show, Analy Gallery, Santa Rosa J.C. 3/01
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