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Dona Turner, Illustrator
Description
Dona Turner is a Fine Artist and Illustrator. She has over 60 images published as lithograph prints and her work has been licensed for a variety of home decor items, greeting cards and napkins. Her illustration work also includes children's books in print and CD ROM format, toy packaging, educational posters and textbooks, illustrations for software products and editorial illustration. In addition to work as a Fine Artist and Illustrator, Turner teaches Graphic Design at the University of California Berkeley Extension in San Francisco. Her canvases and pastels are currently available at art galleries around the Bay Area including the Andrea Schwartz Gallery in San Francisco.
Turner is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, the Graphic Artists Guild, and East Bay Pro Arts
I think Art is the practice of making something profound out of nothing remarkable. Art is about capturing moments and the experiences of life in forms unlike the moments and experiences themselves. I think Art is the flash of lightening that isolates, illuminates, and enhances selected bits of our perceived reality. Art lifts those bits out of context and gives them new meaning. We see them differently because they’re not connected to the other things we’re used to seeing them connected to any more. In this manner, art captures time. Art finds the stuff that exists beyond what we know, beyond what we can see or hear, and makes us think about it.
