Donna-Fay Digance, a former teacher, painter and printmaker, now creates unique art quilts in her Saturna Island Studio. Being given quality art materials as a young child and continued encouragement her life long passion for creating art was nurtured . She participated in an adult art group, at the age of ten facilitated by Laura Ried, a well known Alberta artist. In high school, Donna, took a life drawing class at Calgary Tech.
After majoring in art education, at university, art became a major vehicle for teaching through-out the curriculum.
Donna decided to pursue her art studies by enrolling for art programs at Goldsmith's College School of Art in London, England.
Maiwa Handprints provided fabric art courses in dyeing, batik, and surface design as Donna wanted to work with textiles and safer art materials.
A major commission was a quilted triptych for Parks Canada.
A member of several professional art quilt associations, Donna exhibits in British Columbia and across Canada.
Statement
I am currently working on this series, ‘Red Warning’, by changing the scale and composition of each piece and varying the tree and flame shapes. The shapes are cut using my digital cutter. When I visualized the theme, ‘Red’, the danger of fire on this small island, as well as catastrophic fires world wide exacerbated by climate change became central to my series.
I create these original art quilts in my studio on Saturna Island. More generally my themes include landscapes inspired by Saturna Island, dancers and other figures in imaginative “dreamscapes”.
