Biography
"I paint because I don't know how not to. My subject matter is
the human body because I find it irresistible in its beauty, expressiveness
and endless possibilities. Beyond this my work must speak for itself.
This is my native tongue."
Donna Maderer was born during
the "I like Ike"/Lenny Bruce/McCarthy years in your basic
large, eastern seaboard college town. She subsequently grew up in about
8,000 other similar towns. After years with a traveling carnival, selling
fireworks on street corners, dispatching trucks and, for a seeming eternity,
working as an artist's model, she's found her home in the printing industry.
Paint and ink feeling pretty similar and all. Donna lost the majority
of her hearing over this past year. She has Neurofibromatosis Type 2,
so the evaporation of music and speech recognition has long been expected.
To paraphrase Johnny Cash - she saw this train a comin'.
