Donna Naprstek
While Donna and her husband spent twenty years raising their four children just outside of Carleton Place, she painted with watercolours and acrylics and taught watercolours at Brush Strokes in CP.
She was a member of AAAA and Arts Carleton Place at that time. Then in 2013 Donna and her husband moved to the interior of BC to fulfill a dream when they retired. They made their home in Revelstoke for the past twelve years. During that time Donna took up kayaking and collecting driftwood on the Columbia River just north of town and has been painting on driftwood for the past 5 years. She finds that acrylics work best for her when painting on the rough, uneven pieces of driftwood. Each piece is unique in shape and size and she follows the flow of the grain in the wood with her paint brush. Almonte is now home. Donna is happy to be once again a member of AAAA and Arts Carleton Place. She is also a member of the Mississippi Madawaska Land Trust and holds art classes with them for conservation. In November she led an art class all about painted turtles. In February it was an art class about old growth forests. She finds these art classes very fulfilling. Donna’s painted driftwood can be found in Surrounding Memories in Carleton Place and Personal Touch in Gillies Corners.
Almonte & Area Artists Association 