Native New Yorker

Donna Brodie aka DJBB paints with acrylic, gouache and watercolor, often creating humorous images with an undercurrent of mischief as well as images of the natural world in serenity. Her paintings are inspired by fairy tales, myths, Lewis Carrol, Shakespeare, fantasy films such as Cocteau's La Belle et le Bête and the Japanese surreal classic Mothra as well as nature – sea, sky, land.

She has been The Writers Room Executive Director since 1994, www.writersroom.org.

She was born and raised in New York City, where she lives in the East Village and summers on the coast of Eastchester Bay in an area of the Bronx called Country Club.

“With her sherbet color palette and agile brushstrokes, Donna Brodie's paintings conjure an expressive world of surreal naivete. Her style is a distinctive hybrid of mid-century illustration and color-field abstraction; the resulting paintings are beguiling, hilarious and visually pleasing.”

- Adam Harrison Levy, School of Visual Arts