Donna Britton
Artist Bio
Donna Britton is an artist, musician, and retired art educator living in Glens Falls, New York. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Art Education with an Art Therapy minor at SUC @ Buffalo, and her Master’s degree in Administration and Supervision at SUNY Plattsburgh. Throughout her thirty-one years in the Hudson Falls Central School District, she taught lessons using a variety of materials and methods while incorporating a multitude of art history periods which continue to inspire her own work. These include abstract designs, still life scenes, and landscapes in drawing, block prints, mixed media, acrylics, gouache, watercolors, and photography.
Her most recent work is a series of acrylic abstract paintings based on details of motorcycles. She had a solo show, “Mostly Motorpsychedelic”, at the North Country Arts 2nd Floor Gallery in Glens Falls City Hall, where she displayed her motorcycle-themed paintings, landscapes, and some other abstract pieces. In 2023, she had a show titled “Motorpsychedelic”, which included thirty of these motorcycle paintings at the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, and one of her paintings, “Lookin’ For Adventure,” took Second Place Best of Show at the Paul Nigra Center for Creative Arts Fall/Winter Juried Show. She has been the “resident artist” at the vintage bike tent at Americade for two years.
Her work has also been displayed in juried shows at the Shirt Factory Gallery, LARAC Gallery and Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, the Eden Compton Studio Gallery in Saratoga Springs, Ti Art Gallery in Ticonderoga and the Artists’ Space at the National Bottle Museum in Ballston Spa. She has had work in exhibits at the Mountain Gallery in Glens Falls and the Saratoga Arts Council in Saratoga Springs. She has shown work in Online exhibits hosted by the NorthWind Fine Arts Gallery in Saranac Lake, and she was selected as a finalist in the inaugural “Color, Shape, Space” international competition and web exhibition hosted by the Cross Currents Gallery.
She is a member of LARAC and the North Country ARTS Organization.