Originally from Michigan,
Nona Donoho has made North Carolina home since 1972. Nona
pursued her art studies at Kendall College of Art and Design,
in Grand Rapids Michigan; Santa Monica College, Santa Monica,
California, Sawtooth Center for the Arts, Winston Salem, North
Carolina and The Odyesey Center for the Ceramic Arts, Asheville,
North Carolina studing under Mark Burleson, Lieh Leitson,
and Linda McFarland.
Her life and work has
been defined by her varied background. Maintaining a career
for over twenty years in the graphic arts field of the furniture
industry and now in web design, Nona has always pursued a
love for the fine arts with her works in oil or watercolor
painting and ceramics. Having at one time studied psychology
and seriously considered art therapy for a career, she uses
its humanistic and personal perspective to bring to her work
suggestions of the hidden elements of the psyche. Nona's repertoire
whether in figurative, landscape or ceramics focuses primarily
on the human figure with a crisp palette which not only is
reflected in the vividly, high colored landscapes even if
only implied, amidst surealistic activity often fused with
explosive color.
Her pieces possess a
layered sensuality, expressing her disire to capture the emotion
within the human form. It is therefore, no accident that Nona
deliberately draws out the human form as well in her ceramics,
centering its presence in the very nature of the clay.
She has exhibited at
numerous shows over the last 25 years and is in the collections
of: the First Union Bank, The Cramer Foundation and numerous
private collections.
