A renaissance spirit at heart, Donaldo is most strongly influenced by Raphael whose poetic sense of harmony is a constant inspiration and most evident in his soft atmospheric style. While primarily self-taught, he credits his long-ago portraiture studies with Gerald...
Read MoreA renaissance spirit at heart,
Donaldo is most strongly influenced by Raphael whose poetic sense of harmony is
a constant inspiration and most evident in his soft atmospheric style. While
primarily self-taught, he credits his long-ago portraiture studies with Gerald
Scott at the Artist’s Workshop in Toronto, for opening his mind to
understanding what it is to “see” with the eyes of an artist.
His distinctive personal style is
all about possibilities. Capturing moments glimpsed and fleeting. Weaving
together a magical combination of figure and landscape, mindscape and
dreamscape. Sometimes simple. Sometimes complex. Sometimes luminous. Often
ambiguous. Rendering his visions as realistically as required to convey his
ideas while maintaining an overall pictorial balance.
After years in the corporate world, Donaldo is wholly engaged in his artist sensibilities, creating classical surrealist drawings that are infused with an ethereal beauty. Donaldo entered and exhibited in Juried Art Shows in both the Toronto, Canada area and completed several private commissions. His Instagram page @donaldofinearts has a respectable number of followers, 2,700 and has received praise from accomplished artists around the world.
Donaldo seeks balance and harmony amidst chaos on an artistic journey of exploration shrouded in a timeless sfumato mist.
