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Deep in the Cornish countryside, from a farmyard studio – Donya is making naughty cat paintings, weird & wonderful still-lifes with furbies, flowers and magical fruits and beautiful pet portraits inspired by the magical wild. Take a look at my prints and paintings in store 

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Wyrd Gallery is creating bespoke oil-painted art works inspired by the Weird & wonderful. My art looks to the dark spaces of the still-life, the naive, the void & dirt, the oddly funny and the otherworldly. Here you will find skulls and flowers and furbies in a surreal, shapeshifting exploration of beautiful phenomena.

I want to make special objects, that have meaning and value to those who want them. Bespoke services can include painting your companion pets, person portraits, objects or another subject dear to your heart. It can also be a study in pretty weirdness, the sublime or strange. 

Needless to say, pieces are one of a kind. Oil paintings stay wet for weeks. It lives and breathes and slowly hardens with magic and naive charm. I hope by being here you see the magic in the oils and are wanting to re-home my artwork within yours.

Donya is an Authorial Artist, Illustrator, poet & Book-maker living on a small farm in rural Cornwall, UK. She has an MA in Authorial Illustration and the 2018 prize for Outstanding Achievement from Falmouth University. Books and Graphic Novels Published by Guillemot Press, Blankslatebooks & Avery Hill. Illustrated poetry books by Hex-Press. Illustration clients include Cartoon Network, Image Comics, Samsung, and Tatty Divine. When not in the studio she is an associate lecturer at The University of Plymouth and UWE. Study trips of note include a three month scholarship to study in Hokkaido, Japan and residencies in Iceland and New York. See Donyatodd.com for Illustration practice.

Resident artist, Bodmin Poetry Festival, 2019 | The Northern Festival of Illustration, 2019 | NEXUS, Falmouth Drawing Centre, 2018 | Synaesthesia, Peninsula Arts, 2018 | Changelings, Rough Hewn Gallery, 2018 | Seeing Voices, Falmouth Poly, 2018 | Space Peach, The Potager Garden, 2018 | MANIFESTO, Falmouth Poly, 2018 | Fruits, Brighton Illustration Fair, 2017 | Comix Creatrix, House of Illustration, 2016 | Underneath Exhibition, Orbital Comics, 2015 | As Above So Below, Killigrew Gallery, 2014 | Blank Slate: New British Comics, Gosh! | 2013 Foyles billboard, Foyles London, 2012 | The Pony Gallery, Portland, 2012 | EXHIBITIONS 

The Artist

I love oil painting. I love finding strange objects to arrange to create something funny and beautiful out of the ether. Every painting is different and charming and dark, a study somewhere between folk art and still-life. With over a decade of authorial Practice, I’m qualified to provide something special into your life and home. Please get in touch to discuss projects, exhibitions                                           or to commission a piece.

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