Amy Donaldson has been creating abstract landscape paintings that combine crushed or powdered natural pigments with oil paint. She executes her paintings with tools other than traditional brushes, attacking the canvas in an additive and subtractive process—much like a sculptor—to achieve a dynamic, vibrant surface. Her intuitive response to charismatic music combined with her strong sense of color and feeling for space and light within the composition result in a body of work with a signature style embodying a sense of immediacy and freshness. She currently lives and works in Chicago, IL  
                                     ( from her website)