Dr. Donna Turgeon (née DeMoranville) is a scientist/artist. She has graduate biology degrees from the College of William and Mary and the University of New Hampshire as well as an Associate in Arts Degree from Northern Virginia Community College. Despite a full-time science career, over the last 15 years Donna created 250 pencil/charcoal drawings and watercolor, pastel, and acrylic paintings. Recently retired as an ecologist/oceanographer with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, she now can devote even more time to her art.

Her artwork — whether of flowers, wildlife, old working fishing vessels, landscapes, or pets — is rendered with impeccable accuracy yet intimacy. Her paintings always tell a story. Her subjects are so real they seem to move, to breathe even. Her animals stare out of the canvas and into the viewer’s eyes.

Landscape

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Flowers