An Artist for more than 35 years, Donnelle currently teaches several times a year at the Cultural Art Alliance Bayou Arts Center in Santa Rosa Beach, FL. Donnelle was born and raised in Atlanta, GA and later moved to Birmingham, AL where she raised a family, helped run the family business and painted at a teaching art gallery. She later gained ownership of the gallery and renamed it Gallery 3. She taught art there for five years exhibiting her own work alongside that of her students. She moved to her home in Seagrove Beach, FL in 2003. Presently, Donnelle lives in Seacrest, FL along scenic highway 30A and paints daily at her “Seabreeze Studio”.