A native Virginian, born in Alexandria and wandering through Central Virginia before moving to Woodbridge in 2007, Donna Liguria has always been a dabbling artist and painter, working mainly with acrylics on canvas. She is mostly a self-taught artist. Her style is typically ‘painted realism’ rendering landscapes, seascapes, animals and pets, and wonderful places to be and see. She often gets comments, “is it a photo or a painting?” Her life-long art experiences included a previous paint business, called WallDreams where she painted murals on walls in restaurants and homes around Virginia. Previous “non-art” work also included owning several restaurant businesses in Charlottesville and Louisa, and more recently working for a Northern Virginia IT company.Now retired, Donna is inspired by beautiful colors, textures, sun light, and shadows with a passion to applying the captured vision to canvas, with thought to “painting it as real as it can be”. She is also a blogger, working on her own blog called Donna’s Cave Paintings and on the Prince William Art Society blog called PWAS Artistry Spin, posting and promoting anything art.