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Donna Teleis moved to Wilmington, Delaware, with her family in 1966, where she still lives and does her artwork in a basement studio. Most of Donna’s training has been in the form of attendance at various workshops and evening classes. Ms. Teleis has attended classes at the Center for Creative Arts in Hockessin, Delaware, and has also traveled to workshops at the American Academy of Equine Art in Lexington, Kentucky. Donna did spend her first year in College as an Art major, but she changed majors when deciding that she would prefer to keep her art as a relaxing hobby, rather than a vocation.
While her main interest is the Equine image, Donna has also been commissioned to paint portraits of pets and of homes. She works mainly with oils, graphite, and colored pencil, but has also been known to dabble with watercolor and pastel. While Donna’s painting style tends to realism, she likes to show the viewer the amazing and unexpected variety of colors in the world around us. Donna has won several awards for her artwork.
Juried Shows
2001 Regional Fine Arts Exhibition: October 5-26, Center for Creative Arts, Yorklyn, Delaware.
Juror – Patricia Moshanko
2002 Regional Fine Arts Exhibition: October 4-25, Center for Creative Arts, Yorklyn, Delaware
Juror – Martha Caruthers
2004 Regional Fine Arts Exhibiton: October 8 – 29, Center for Creative Arts, Yorklyn, Delaware
Juror – Peter Kaplan
Still Life: 2004, Banana Factory, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
2006 Regional Fine Arts Exhibition: October 6- 27, Center for Creative Arts, Yorklyn, Delaware
Jurors – Paul Andreas, Kalliopie Mihalo-Rojas
Red-The Primary Color: June 8 – 30, 2007, The Big Picture, Hockessin, Delaware
2007 Regional Fine Arts Exhibition: October 5 – 26, Center for Creative Arts, Yorklyn, Delaware
Juror – James Lecky
2008 Regional FIne Arts Exhibition: Center for Creative Arts
Group Exhibitions (Juried)
2003 Members Exhibition: April 4 – 25, Center for Creative Arts, Yorklyn, Delaware
2004 Members Exhibition: April 2 – 23, Center for Creative Arts, Yorklyn, Delaware
2007 Members Exhibition: April 13 – May 11, Center for Creative Arts, Yorklyn, Delaware
2008 Members Exhibition: April 4 - 25, Center for Creative Arts, Yorklyn, Delaware
Awards
Technical Merit Award: 2003 Members Show – April 4 – 25, Center for Creative Arts, Yorklyn, Delaware.
Juror – Donna Neithammer
Third Place, Student Division: 2007 Members Exhibition, Center for Creative Arts, Yorklyn, Delaware
Juror – Donna Cusano
First Place: Red-The Primary Color, The Big Picture, Hockessin, Delaware
Juror – Larry Anderson
Scholarships
American Academy of Equine Art – student scholarship, 2001
