THAD DONAT

fine art painter

About Thad Donat

I have studied and practiced Architecture, directed Industrial Design, hand crafted furniture, restored turn of the century homes and traveled to far away places. All seem to feed my painting. Painting for me is everything that ordinary modern life is not. While abstract painting is a demanding task, it has few rules; richness of color and texture, complexity of line and shape, rhythm and arrangement, merging and emerging of layers, composition, embracing accidents... These are all opportunities rather than rules, and they are the forces that drive my work.

After 20 years of experimentation in every medium I could get my hands on, one thing is clear; I am fascinated by the potential of paint to create textures and patterns of great beauty. Little compares to those moments when somewhere amidst all the layers, lines, markings; harmony emerges. The elements that populate my paintings come from admiring chaos and finding beauty in the ordinary. The backgrounds are sometimes as important as the subject and occasionally the two are difficult to decipher. There is no middle ground. Beneath their surface, woven in a fabric of marks and erasures time does not exist. Occasionally in painting, even gravity has vanished.

THE WAY IT SEEMS 46" x 36" $3200	BREATHE...REPEAT 25"x43" $2000	DAY BREAK 48" x 48" $3500
AMONGST THE ROSES 48" x 30" $2400	BETWEEN NOW AND THEN 48" x 36" $2400	REMEMBER WHEN 66" x 42" $3600
DAY DREAM 66" x 42" SOLD $3600	MORE_AND_MORE_EVERYDAY_I.II.III 36" x 36" SOLD $6000 set of 3	INTERSECTION 48" X 32" $2200
PUTTING IN THE TIME 66" X 38" SOLD $3600	COSMO 48" X 48" SOLD $3500	AS NIGHT CONSUMES DAY 48" x 24" $2400
BLUSH 60" x 24" SOLD $2400	SOLO 48" X 48" $3000	WARM DECEMBER 24" X 24" $1400
THE WAY TO BLUE 48" X 36" $2400	DOMINO 66" X 38" SOLD $3200	TANGERINE 43" X 43" $2800
RED WHITE & YOU PIECES OF YOU HELLO YOU 16" X 16" $600 each	ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY 32" X 48" $2400	BETWEEN ME AND YOU 48" X 25" $2000
TANGO 24" X 24" $1400	RED BAMBOO 24" X 24" $1400	LOOKING FOR WAYS TO GET BACK HOME 48" X 32" SOLD $2200
RECEPTION 36" X 48" $2300	THROUGHOUT THE DAY 36"X 48" $2300	FULL MOON 48" X 32" $2000
CROOKED LITTLE SMILE 70" X 38" SOLD $2800	NOW AND AGAIN 36" X 24" $1800	AS I LAY DREAMING 60" X 24" SOLD $2400
BALANCE 24" X 24" $1400	BAMBOO I.II.III 24" X 24" $2000 set of 3	THE WAY I FEEL TONIGHT 18" X 18" $800
UNTIL THE MOON COMES UP 60" X 24" SOLD $2400	LET IT RAIN 48" X 36" SOLD $2000	CORROSION 24" X 24" SOLD $1400