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Don Perley is a self-taught colorist who has been creating paintings, collage, and assemblage art for more than forty years.

Don’s work is improvisational, layered, and complex. Secrets are revealed slowly. The raw and rough of chance encounters, upon close observation, becomes delicate, soothing, and healing. The paintings have no center of focus. They break up into separate passages where the eye is pushed from one to another on an elaborate journey of color relationships.

What Don creates are arenas for colors and materials to display their properties freely in play and combine in unplanned and joyous ways. His intention is not so much the making of art but more a search for spontaneous life springing out of experiments in pure color. This is an exuberant enterprise and Don sees it as direct painting, direct expression, and direct communication.

The recipient of several awards for painting, Don has had solo gallery shows in Philadelphia, the Hudson Valley of New York State, and New York City. A native of the American Midwest, he now lives and works in Stamford, Connecticut.