Donna Balma

Donna Balma (1934-2022) was an innovative and prolific Canadian artist and member of the West Coast Surrealist Group. Her work was profoundly affected by nature and her internal vision. Donna established herself as an imaginative artist who's work has been variously described as fantasy, singular, outsider, visionary, naive, classical, folk, cosmic pop and surreal while she considers it simply painting the reality of her dreams and fantasies.

She was also a prolific mail artist.

Listen to an interview where Nadina Tandy reflects on her artistic relationship with Donna Balma that consisted mostly of exquisite corpses traded back and forth via mail art correspondence : Donna May Balma: Last Words - Andrea Dancer in Conversation with Na...

portion of exquisite corpse by Jessica Gabriel (top), Donna Balma (torso), Nadina Tandy (toes)

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