Donna Bateman Kilbourne is a native of Washington Parish, Louisiana;  living all of her adult life in Clinton, Louisiana.  For many years she has been and still is employed  as an abstractor of land titles in the Feliciana’s.  While her painting   endeavors came late in life, she has always expressed her creative side in multiple avenues from flower arranging, to constructing doll houses and sewing.  After beginning as a self-taught oil painter in 1997, she took a series of lessons from Billie Bourgeois.  Donna has also taken workshops with various teaching artists as work and family schedules have permitted.  Workshops instructors include Alan Flattman, Ken Hosmer, Alice Williams, Lois Griffel, Ann Warner, Leonard Wren, Barrie VanOsdell, C. W. Mundy, David Gallup.  She is a member of the Louisiana Art and Artists Guild and Associated Women in the Arts, past member of Mississippi Art Colony.  Her paintings have been accepted into numerous juried art shows including Baton Rouge Juried Exhibition 2001; several River Road shows, and Chicago’s Restaurant’s shows.   Her work can be found in homes from Massachusetts to Texas.

"My paintings are a story of a  journey, began with trepidation, pursued with excitement, and filled with side trips of exploration (sometimes one step forward and two steps back).  My goal is to spark a connection with the viewer, a visual current, whether it be content, composition, or color.  I have found so much joy in painting and in the wonderful people I have come to know through art, that I hope a glimmer of this comes through."