Artist Statement
My paintings are often full of movement, marked by restless, charging lines and swirling colors that telegraph elation and uplift. At other times, colors are muted and the sense of space overtakes the lines and forms, imparting a meditative quality. My aim is to visually express my emotional and spiritual response to my surroundings more often than suggesting their physical impression. When I paint, I turn to natural abstract forms such as the curl of a wave or the tangle of a thicket, but the rectilinear forms of man-made structures sometimes find their way in as well. Guided by the way nature creates and destroys, I start with a big definitive gesture, perhaps a calligraphic sweep of black paint or large fields of color, and then layer on and scrape off paint as I go along. The process is both spontaneous and analytical and results in the surprises and discoveries that mark any inward or outward journey of exploration.
Press
Philadelphia Inquirer, Victoria Donohoe, "A Little Science". June 26, 2009. Review of "Spring Exhibtion 2009", Lankenau Institute for Medical Research Gallery.
Montgomery County Town and Counry Living, Winter 2008 issue. Painting, "Venezia" featured in the Enjoy section, p. 10.
Review of "On My Way" by Victoria Donohoe, Philadelphia Inquirer, Montgomery County Neighbors, 9/30/07:
Pagus Gallery. Pia De Girolamo, a physician who gave up a private practice of medicine after 12 years to devote her energies to painting, shows abstract paintings at Pagus in Norristown.
These are unpremeditated acts of creation in which feeling is paramount. Using acrylic paint on paper, this Ambler artist, often working large, mingles a bold, thorough traditionalist's concern for drawing with an unusual, highly effective way of conveying the power of light and color directly.
Distinguished by broad, brushy, autographic gestures often in bright hues, her works in this strong show allow chance associations to suggest theme and image.
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