Biography

Desmond DonnellyArtist

“All artists have a muse. This one is Mine.”

“My father was a Scottish paratrooper drill sergeant and my Mum a secret agent who worked for MI 5 during WWII. Growing up was interesting.”

The artist started drawing at the age of 13 and apprenticed with British Oil Painter Peter Corb”All artists have a muse. This one is Mine.”et in his thirties. In 2005 after a hiatus of 15 years he started painting again. The circumstances were unusual.

As in the movie “Work, Pray, Love”, he had abandoned a 6 figure salary to join an Ashram to deal with his issues and evolve his spirituality. “While there I learned a new way of painting – not to use my mind, not to have the vaguest idea what I was doing and simply paint with emotion and spirit.”

What was unusual about this was the fact that the phenomenon of spontaneous apparition began to occur in about 90% of his paintings. After an hour of yoga and an hour of meditation, he would create a completely abstract painting using techniques no one has yet discovered to fully randomize the initial stage of a painting’s development.

The result was a vibrant flow of color and energy rich with texture. Meditating on these paintings brought about the realization that images were spontaneously appearing in faint gradations of color that took very little input from the artist to bring out. The shapes merged into complete themes – each with a different lesson about life.