“Pretty Donna" performed by the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra. From
our collection of dinner music.
And if I regarded all the girls and women in my life as "Flowers", Donna
is by far the most pretty and dramatic.
1 September 2009. Donna Darkwolf Walking in Fields of Gold.
A water-color painting I did from a photo I took of Donna during ur drive
from Johannesburg to Cape Town.
As an artist - I am free to fantasize and create my own World. There were
women in many of my paintings. They were all different.
Yet there was one who appeared constantly, and whether by accident or
subliminal process this imperious / imperial visage would emerge from the
brush strokes.
The patrician, aquiline nose, the high arching brows, the well defined
cheek-bones all describing a woman of royalty.
Her slightly up-turned Arabic eyes, sometimes, with a dreamy look to them,
others with a fixed gaze on the viewer.
Sometimes she appears distant and aloof, other times provocative
And her Mouth!? What a Mouth...
This is a mouth of secret, hidden mirth.
The corners are always just another muscle twitch away from a little smile.
Secret.
Inward.
People who talk about the Mona Lisa smile, don’t know anything...
The Cherub Cat is only a term in the Angel Tiger.
They don’t know anything – until they have seen this mouth.
The lips being what some fashion artists refer to as “bee-stung”.
A mouth that can lift at one corner, with a knowing, side-glanced smile…
in a fashion I have not often seen repeated.
A mouth that can make a small moue of disappointment,
That will cause any man to change his mind about whatever it was he had
done.
Or was about to do. Or wouldn’t do.
The mouth of Hotly Promised surrender, The Mouth of Utter Desire.
The mouth of Scintillating Sarcasm and Dire Wrath.
The Mouth of Saintly Benediction
And the Voice of All Dark Fears Born.
The Mouth of Love’s Love, of Love.
That Mouth!
2014. A waterpainting of the real Donna Darkwolf at Milnerton Beach
1971. Uriah Heep releases their album "Salisbury".
It is the fourth track of the Album.
A philosophical examination that informs us that evil cannot be overcome
by evil itself.
In a year, I will be a gunship Flight Lieutenant, commanding a Flight
in a country no one even remembers.
I Fought for Her. My Lady.
1974. I did a lot of Fantasy and Sci-Fi Art on commission. Hence this
Butterfly Girl. Inspired by Santana's album Borboletta, which is Spanish
for "Butterfly"
I used to meet her in my dreams in a sunlit garden.
Not a fantasy. A MEMORY. I Understood... now.
'Canto de los Flores', which is playing now, guided my imagination
- and SHE drifted into my life.
1979. Something for myself - for a change.
I painted many girls and women in my Fantasy and
Sci-Fi Art... But this one kept appearing in my dreams
I had many long, lucid conversations with her...
1977. A Marijuana Advert. What dope-smoking hippies dream up while they
are stoned.
E-mail me if you want a Print-Ready File. 30 x 40 CM.
1981. For my Collection. I am a Capricorn. A Goat.
This "explains" HER.
I was born 1 1 52. She - 24 2 62.
Ten years, one month later
1982. Twenty years after Donna was born.
A Self-Promo Piece which I still have.
1984. I could always tell in my dreams if she was happy or sad - never imagining that one day I wold be looking at the reality of my Donna Cara Bella.
1986. I imagined a drink that TASTED like Donna.
She looks like Sophia Lauren... SO...
1977. 30 years before I met Donna. There was someone - another Witch almost
like. . .
Read the story
1981. Serenity amidst Disaster.
The Peace after the Storm
1982. 'Donna Rising out The Book of Spells'.
Once you turn the Page. Her Dance Starts
There is no stopping her. She has ARRIVED.
1991. Commissioned for a perfume advert.
A blonde Donna?
1983. The she-devil in my sleep.
1971. Before I went into the Army. I was reading a history book about Isis and the Gate of Ishtar.
I painted this in 1974. Donna was just Twelve.
I had just come out of the Army.
1970. A Promotional Work-piece for my Portfolio, as I set out as a Free-lance
Illustrator. I was 17.
Just finishing high school. A face I saw so many times in my dreams.
2016. Coincidental. An Illustration for a chapter in Donna's book - and it just happened that when I was doing it, Christmas was on the horizon.