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            <text>Donna Balma is an innovative and prolific Canadian artist currently living in the Pacific Northwest Rainforest of B.C., Canada. She has lived half her life in rural and half her life in urban environments in both England and Canada.As an artist, she was a late starter and her work is profoundly affected by nature and her internal visions.&#13;
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Balma is a self-taught visionary mixed media artist whose work has been described as: authentic, original, nave/outsider, singular, primitive, surreal, psycho-realist, classical, cosmic pop, unique.&#13;
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Source: Saatchi Art</text>
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