My mission as a visual artist is to share the awareness that we feel better when we express feelings on paper, canvas or even by drawing in the sand at low tide! I delight in living simply and close to nature. I share a disciplined focus and a clear intent. My artist in the community goal is to assist others in diving deeply into physical, emotional and spiritual zones where true creative joy resides.

               DONNA IONA DROZDA

ART AS ACTION

…The power of Drozda's paintings (is) not only the potency of her content, but the strength of her visual language and the compatibility between the two. The artist's sense of color, design, rhythms and patterns, in combination with her complex and textured surfaces, result in “lively vibrating spaces in every square inch,”
…These furtive underlying relief patterns create a physical and metaphorical topography that reflects and expands the subjects of the paintings, imbuing them with “secret things to discover under the paint.” …Visitors who allow themselves the time to explore these paintings in all their rich, but accessible, complexity are certain to be rewarded in many ways, including feeling soothed and buoyed in their own personal journeys through the world, spiritual or otherwise.

-~Betsy DiJulio
Port Folio Weekly, Norfolk, VA -
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“I may never meet you or know what you do for a living, but I know this about you; unless you choose a life of love and service, you will never be happy.”
                                                   ~Dr. Albert Schweitzer
"Pixie with a black belt." Bill Ruehlmann, journalist
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