Dana Volkert - Pattern and Process .....

Dana Volkert

Pattern and process play in the work of Dana Volkert.  Sometimes in her paintings I feel I’m looking at the earth from the outer atmosphere.  She works with swirls of paint and achieves an effect that has the luminosity of a pearl or precious stones.  Her paintings glisten.

Dana is a native of the Virginia countryside and studied art at the San Francisco Art Institute as well as Georgetown University.  Both she and her husband are artists and they travel between the US and Italy to work.

Dana’s paintings have a wide range that can depict a startlingly realistic beetle with its elegant beauty, or patterns of flowers, or seedpods.  I always feel her eye working a visual poetry no matter what the subject.   Marsha Ralls