About the Artist

Donna Montgomery

Award-Winning Multimedia Artist | Watercolour, Collage & Abstract Mixed Media

Donna Montgomery is a mixed media abstract expressionist painter.  Based in Southern Ontario, just north of Toronto, Donna is a lifelong creative and retired educator whose art draws deeply her inner self expression and on the landscapes and shifting seasons of the places she's called home from the Greater Sudbury region of Northern Ontario.

A Winding Path Back to the Brush

Donna's artistic journey began with oils, but everything shifted in her twenties when a weekend watercolour workshop with Graham Scholes introduced her to a medium she couldn't put down. Around the same time, she launched a career in elementary education, earning a B.A. and B.Ed. with a Visual Arts Specialist along the way — a path that would occupy the next several decades as family and career took priority.  It wasn't until a 2004 workshop with artist Helga Flower that Donna's pull back toward painting became impossible to ignore. She began entering local art shows, studio tours, and juried exhibitions, and the recognition followed.  Her paintings have since won  many awards and now hang in homes at home and outside Canada . Hey early works were recognized with awards in watercolour but recent awards in mixed media were to the Ivan Wheale Award for her abstract works *Postponed Decisions* (2023) and *Energy Flow* (2025) in the LaCloche Juried Art Exhibition

Art, for Donna, has always been as much about community as creation. While in Sault Ste Marie, she was an active member — and two-term president — of the Algoma Art Society, as well as a member of her hometown art club in Onaping Falls. Today, she's an engaged member of the Barrie Art Club, showing regularly alongside fellow artists , entering local art exhibitions and teaching workshops that share her intuitive, exploratory approach with a new generation of painters.

Exhibitions & Recognition

Recent Awards

First Place Award “ The Painterly Artist” online art exhibition 2026                                                                   First Place Abstract  in July 2026 BoldBrush Painting Competition                                                                      Recipient of the Ivan Wheale Award for the abstract paintings ‘Postponed Decisions’ 2023 and ‘Energy Flow’ in 2025 in the LaCloche Art Show, Whitefish Falls, Ontario.
Work featured in local juried and group exhibitions, and Coldwater Mill Gallery , Coldwater, Ontario in summer months.
Active participant in the Barrie Art Club and former committee chair for the “Art Blast” creative event in 2024 and 2025