• Hidden Roses Hidden Roses
• L'hiver approche L'hiver approche
• Pink Bottles Pink Bottles
• Silent Beauty of the Woods Silent Beauty of the Woods
• Memories From My Garden Memories From My Garden
• Deux Frères Deux Frères
• Keep Your Eye on the Birdie Keep Your Eye on the Birdie
• Camouflage Camouflage
• Berries Beautiful Berries Beautiful
• Run Run
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DONNA ACHESON JUILLET

Sartrouville, FRANCE

Tél. : 0033 139144408 / 0033 630248525

Email : donna.juillet@orange.fr

Site : https://www.donna-achesonjuillet.com/

 

 

 

ARTIST STATEMENT 

 

When I paint, I am particularly interested in expressing my wonder for nature. My art explores what I have lived, transformed by my emotions and refuses to be a copy of what I see. The colors harmonize, blend together and at times are structured into defined shapes. I work in cohesion with water, accepting what it offers me, and taking it elsewhere to evoke an animate or inanimate object. My painting is a part of my soul, bringing together the emotions, memories, and sensations that I have experienced.

 

I love to take risks, to provoke those accidents that this wonderful medium has to offer. However I do not leave everything to chance and plan my compositions, looking for balance through use of value and colour.

 

I enjoy mixing the figurative with the abstract, inviting the spectator to finish the story that I started. I prefer to work from my imagination and am interested in art that shows the artist's vision of the world as they see it.

 

For me, painting with watercolours is a never-ending adventure and a never-ending love affair

 

 

MEMBERSHIP 

 

Member of the Société Française de l’Aquarelle (SFA)

 

Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour (CSPWC)

 

Honorary Member of the Société Canadienne de l’Aquarelle (SCA)

 

Member of IWS France

 

Member of Mondial Art Academia (France) 

 

 

SELECTED JURIED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

Guest of Honneur,  Alizarines, l’Häy-les-Roses, March 2019

 

1st Watercolour Festival, Bec Hellouin 2019

 

2^nd International Biennal, SCA in Québec 2019

 

5^th & 6th Silk Road International Arts Festival 2018, 2019

 

Fabriano 2019, 2020

 

International Festival of Watercolour of the Perche 2018

 

Watercolour Biennal of Brioude 2017, 2019

 

Biennal of Léon, 2016, 2018, Biennal of Watercolour in Coquelles 2016, 2018

 

Aquarellences, Alençon, 2016, Aquarellades 2016, 2018, Mons, Belgium

 

Salon d’Arts in St. Germain-En-Laye, Manège Royale 2015

 

Exhibitions with the SFA : Maromme 2015, Creutzwald 2015, St. Florent le Vieil 2015,  ECWS : Avignon 2016, Salamanca 2017, Cracovie 2018. Charenton 2017, 2019, Sanary-Sur-Mer 2017, 2019, Mexico 2017, Milano 2017, Trélazé 2018, Germany 2018, Exposition SFA/CSPWC Toronto, Avignon 2018, Estonia 2019, Australia

 

Watercolour Salon in Caussade,  2015-17, Watercolour Salon in St. Yrieix de la Perche, 2014-15

 

Exhibition in the Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, Avril 2014 –17, International Watercolour Salon in Uckange, 2014 – 17, Salon des Arts in Margency, 2014, 2018, Salon du Val of Viosne 2014

 

Salon du Dessin et de la Peinture à l’Eau, Grand Palais, Paris, 2013, 2014, 2019

 

International Festival of Watercolour Aiguillon, Lot et Garonne, 2013, 2014

 

Open Water 2013, 2014, 2016-18 Exhibition, CSPWC, Canada, Exchange CSPWC – NWS

 

Watercolour Biennal Ribeauvillé, France, 2013, 2014

 

Salon de l’Aquarelle de Belgique, Namur, 2013, Bruxelles 2015 

 

 

GALLERIES AND OTHER EXHIBITIONS 

 

Solo exhibition: Villènes-sur-Seine 2019, Atelier Pièce Unique 2016 as well as group exhibitions

 

Diverse galleries: Bygillian Gallery, Bourne End, UK. et Oberonart, Burnham, Bucks, UK