PERSONAL STRUCTURES

Donna Isham is an expressionist artist whose practice moves between abstraction, figurative painting, sculpture, and immersive installation. Working across contemporary and traditional media, she explores the emotional and psychological dimensions of the human experience, often examining themes of memory, perception, identity, and transformation. Her paintings merge lyrical abstraction with fragments of the human figure, creating layered visual environments where color, movement, and form interact.

Drawing on a background in film, Isham approaches composition with a cinematic sensibility, constructing visual spaces that invite viewers into contemplative psychological landscapes. Her work often begins with intuitive mark-making, allowing forms to emerge organically through layered surfaces and gestural colors. Bold coloration frequently develops after the initial marks, amplifying movement and emotional resonance within the composition. Through expressive process and evolving material layers, her work investigates the relationship between the physical and the metaphysical, the visible and the imagined.