Donna is a well-established mixed media artist from Lowell, Massachusetts. With a strong passion for art from a young age, she now lends her talents to foster and inspire her students ranging from ages as young as 5 years old to students who are just beginning their art careers a bit later in life. She currently works as an Art instructor at Western Ave Studios and is a 5 year veteran at Michael’s Stores.

​Driven to reach even more of an audience to share her life’s passion, she also worked as a traveling art instructor for Young Rembrandt’s and was a featured artist for a holiday segment on local cable television. Her enthusiasm for teaching extends farther than just the classroom and her clientele reaches as far as the Asian continent overseas. Inspiration strikes from anything that sparks joy and the beauty of everyday elements found in nature. Donna is so excited to be a part the JJArtworks team and looks forward to sharing her love for art with you all

Ever since Richie was in preschool, his favorite time of day was when he was allowed to draw and paint. As he got older, this love never faded and eventually he went to college to study art. He loves fine arts, graphic arts, and music arts. By the time he got to college, he studied at MassArt and Westfield to receive a degree in Fine art and Art History.

From there, he took his love of art and creativity to Disney College Program in hopes of being an animator. He uses many different mediums, such as oils, acrylics, watercolors, pens, markers and pastels. He believes that working in a single medium is restrictive to his artistic process. Each idea manifests in its own individual style. Richie loved spreading peace and love and making others smile, so he fit right in at Disney.

After College, Richie began playing guitar and received a position at Tetra Tech in the environmental consulting world. He started to gig regularly while also working environmental projects that helped improve the quality of people’s lives. He spent over 8 years working on natural disasters working with wildfires and hurricanes, helping people get their homes and properties back after devastating events.  

He is a big part of the community and has run 9 Boston marathons in his lifetime and helped raise money for multiple charities. In 2019, in Paradis, CA wildfire he met his beautiful long term partner Kristen who he also discovered was from Massachusetts. They both realized they loved to paint and play music and decided to move back to Boston to start gigging and playing music as team. Richie’s favorite thing in life is creating art and music with his two beautiful daughters Kayla and Melina. The power of the imagination merging with creating art with his daughters makes for the perfect
way to spend time.

In 2022, Richie met JJ working at the Anchor in Charlestown during one of his paint parties. Richie and JJ immediately clicked and eventually Richie became a licensee and teaches and assists events for JJArtworks.