Three years ago I began an interactive poetry challenge on my blog.   It involved the public sending me 1-2 word titles and I had to send back a poem to each title within 48 hours.

Ranging from surreal, to grungy, from romantic, to funny, from political to symbolic and everywhere in between, the poems were as diverse as the titles sent in.   I gathered them into a collection called Weirdos Like Me.  It’s a collection of poetry, art and surrealism.  Amidst the poetry are also song lyrics to songs by Donna And The Aspinauts with whom I am the lead singer and main singer-songwriter. Read the rest of this entry »

This week, I released my new book, Weirdos Like Me. It’s a collection of art, poetry and surrealism.  And, so, dedicated to all of you living with snow up to your eyeballs, here’s one of the works from the book, entitled SNOW.

SNOW

Confetti soft, it fell, calling me, the girl from a land of sun.

From the window it took my heart.

My feet ran me down the stairs.

I turned, music box dancer in a world of falling sky

And I knew snow. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s Christmas so I have a second art sale on ebay!  A selection of signed Limited Edition are prints are selling at a starting price of $20.

My original art works have been exhibited and sold nationally and internationally and usually sell for $100-$1,500.  The Limited Edition prints are from collections of only 50 meaning that after 50 art prints are made of each of the original works these are derived from no more art prints will be made so there will only ever be 50 of these in the world.

Have a look at them.  These usually sell for $85 but in the sale start at $20.  So if you’ve wanted one of my original artworks, or want to buy one as a fundraiser for a charity auction, now’s a good time to grab one in this sale.  It lasts 6 days so be quick.  You can find the ebay link here

Happy bidding.

Warmly,

Donna Williams *)
author, artist, singer-songwriter, screenwriter.

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This month’s art work is titled “The Velveteen Rabbit”.

Its from my Dreamscapes/Faceless collection and features a Rabbit and his Person in a cradle like boat on a lagoon.  Each appears waiting for the other to navigate and because neither do, the water itself navigates them.  They drift in silence, just ‘being’.   The Velveteen Rabbit was a book by Margery Williams about a stuffed rabbit who longs to be a real rabbit.   The work is acrylic on paper, 31cm x 41cm.

I hope you enjoy the painting.  It is one I did this week, the rest of which you can see in my online gallery.

Warmly,

Donna Williams *)

http://www.donnawilliams.net

This month’s art work is titled “Life on Earth”.

It features two of my faceless people standing in a forest at ‘the edge of the earth’.  Whilst they are grounded in a tangible reality, beneath them is a realm of intangible emotions.  One is tentatively asking the other a question but the other person is unable to answer.  The work is acrylic on paper, 31cm x 41cm.

I hope you enjoy the painting.  It is one I did last week, the rest of which you can see in my online gallery.

Warmly,

Donna Williams *)

http://www.donnawilliams.net

This month’s art work is titled ‘‘At The Typewriter“.

And it was at the typewriter that I began to find I could express something more than echoed speech.  I was about 9 years old when a typewriter was left in my room for my discovery.  Being a child with extreme Exposure Anxiety, I was reticent about it.  Surely it was an attempt to test me out, to get me to accept it, and clearly it was of ‘their world’, not mine.  Read the rest of this entry »

  Christophe Pillault produces some of the most moving art by people with autism in the world.  Severely autistic, functionally non-verbal and with extremely limited self help skills he produces faceless, figurative works of soulful figures interacting.  The works are full of movement, passion, yet also great grace Read the rest of this entry »

This month’s featured art work is titled “Eleanor“.  It’s title comes from the Beatles song Eleanor Rigby which I feel is a song that captures aloneness.  I have rarely felt lonely but I experience aloneness all the time.  I’m solitary by nature and by choice and I cherish my solitude enormously, often too much Read the rest of this entry »

   Four of my works will be exhibited in exhibitions in New York and New Jersey this May and June including two massive works which have traveled 10,000 miles across the sea for exhibition.   This is third time exhibiting in New York and my first time exhibiting in New Jersey. Read the rest of this entry »

This month’s featured artwork is titled Blah Blah Blah.  It’s a painting about meaning deafness Read the rest of this entry »