About Donna Polos

In 1991, I was a frustrated beginning watercolour painter. I would practice... practice... practice... and see little growth. To ease the frustration, I would quilt. I had been a quiltmaker for fifteen years and had worked with textiles in many forms since childhood. Fabric was a medium I was comfortable with.

As time passed, I started to ask a lot of "what ifs". What if I applied watercolour technique to cloth? Surprising, through experimentation, I discovered much of the technique worked. I played with dye painting, surface design, fabric painting, stencilling, heliographic painting, resists, negative painting, underpainting, glazing, paint pouring, monoprinting on sandpaper, chalk pastels, and metallic threads and yarns sewn on the surface. I find hand quilting and embroidery relaxing, so all of my work is hand quilted and hand embroidered.

Today I paint in three mediums watercolour on fabric, paper, and canvas. I often will paint these mediums side by side.

I am a retired elementary school teacher. As a classroom teacher and also as a Visiting Artist and Artist In Residence, I have taught art to many students. I am also an active member of the Federation Of Canadian Artists. In the last 22 years I have had 19 solo exhibitions throughout the lower mainland of B.C. I have also been in many group and juried shows.









As my fabric painting has developed, so has my watercolour on paper. I usually paint fabric and paper simultaneously side by side. As I have developed as an artist, my two mediums have become one.

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email: Donna Polos
Website: www.DonnaPolos.com

Artwork by Donna Polos

Windy Tofino	Into the Fall Trees	Trees at Ruckle Point	On the Path to Shannon Falls
Imminent Storm	Hornby Island Shoreline	Cinnamon in the Air	Weeping Willow
Free Food	Deer Lake in the Snow	Carving Time	On the Road to Cherryville
Fall of '98	Oak Leaves	Hollyhock

Exhibition Artwork by Donna Polos