Donna Mindart North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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Donna Mindart is a multidisciplinary artist who explores memory, place, identity, and perception through intricate pen drawings. Their work highlights contrasts- light and dark, seen and unseen-often embeddingDonna Mindart is a multidisciplinary artist who explores memory, place, identity, and perception through intricate pen drawings. Their work highlights contrasts- light and dark, seen and unse

My practice is originally pen to paper, working from mind, Mental health plays a big part in the outcome of many of my pieces, alongside history and heritage finding purpose, analysing to build a picture of the past, present and sometimes the future. I love to see some relation in how over time there has been a growth and decline for a person with mental health.

My work is mainly in black and white on paper. Digital has shown me how to use colour to help with illustrating, going forth; I would love to collaborate commercially with a Mental health organisation in showing casing through my art.

Further, I am exploring other textures I can use, different work forms such as wood burning, etching onto mental and using oils and inks to draw onto bark which is preserved and flattened. I also refer to my mind as a washing machine, so much of my work has one hidden in most pieces. My latest explore and exhibit piece was combining a drum of a washing machine and nature wood to make a bookshelf, exhibited in the Scarborough Museum and Gallery, alongside 8 other pen pieces and an animal hide that I drew on and preserved with beeswax to show a moment in time. This is just the start of a new beginning for me.