BIO Erin Donnelly is an abstract painter working in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Lyons, Colorado. She is focused primarily on large-scale, abstract paintings utilizing the mediums of oil, acrylic, and Prismacolor pencil on canvas.​Erin was born in California and studied painting at UC Berkeley and then CU Boulder after relocating to Colorado with her husband 20 years ago. She is a happy Colorado transplant and feels lucky to live at the liminal edge of where the Great Plains meet the Rocky Mountains–a vibrant and creative place to raise a young family. Erin has worked as an archaeologist, interior designer, and head of sales for a successful beverage company startup before returning in 2021 to a full-time studio practice.​She has been painting for more than 20 years, with work in private and corporate collections across the U.S.​​ARTIST STATEMENT In these abstract paintings, I engage in a long and dynamic process of intuition and composition that transforms each work through a series of delicate adjustments. Objects emerge, are scratched out and painted over, or are left as glimpsed fragments. The finished piece is a complex tapestry of layered color fields and textural forms, knit together by a searching, curious line.