About the Artist

Donna Repaty has been creating art since she could put crayon to paper. She studied Art Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and Advertising/Design at the Colorado Institute of Art, Denver. Donna has worked in many mediums, but always comes back to play in mud.

She has been creating ceramic flowers since 1998. She learned this technique when she and her husband lived in Seoul, S. Korea. Her instructor, Miss Kim, would teach a new flower every week, and every week the students were expected to go home and create a dozen more to bring back to Miss Kim for critique. When enough flowers passed inspection, Miss Kim would help make an arrangement. The flowers are made petal by petal; then air-brushed with an under glaze and fired. If a shiny surface is desired, a clear glaze, or Celadon glaze is brushed on and the piece is fired again.

Donna learned to make roses, calla lilies, daises, water lilies, irises, carnations, tulips, orchids and peonies from Miss Kim; then taught herself how to make poppies, pansies, daffodils, sunflowers, tiger lilies, fuchsia, columbine, and hibiscus. There are so many more flowers to learn, a good project for retirement!

Donna has shown her artwork in the galleries of the Arts Association of Northern New York in Sackets Harbor, NY and The Thousand Islands Arts Center in Clayton, NY as well as WHAM and Benevilla Boutique in Surprise AZ. She teaches flower workshops at Marjon Ceramics in Phoenix AZ, and several clay clubs in the Phoenix and surrounding areas since moving to Arizona in 2013.