About the artist

wendy clarke

I draw with my finger, using the iPad app “Brushes”.  I spent the last several years living vicariously through the Dancing Donkey drawings and have drawn over 1,000 to date.

​The dancing Donkey project is the latest form to arise out of my life in the arts. The daughter of successful artists, I began my career in New York City as a videographer, where I created “The Love Tapes” and had exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art and other museums around the World. After a move to Topanga, California, I got my first two miniature donkeys, Marcello and Sophia.  Eventually, I moved to northern New Mexico where I could raise more miniature donkeys, adding Romeo, Cupid, Mojo and Chinook to the donkey herd, as well as  2 llamas – Chappy and Blue, 1 alpaca- Sinatra, 2 sheep- the Coco Plums, and 5 dogs- Bella, Nico, Lupita, Lolita and Patou,  to the barnyard.

The donkeys are my muses. They have inspired sculpture, and drawings and a children’s book - ​The Dancing Donkeys Learn the Alphabet as well as other books that are in the works.  While making the drawings, I was remembering the ballets and Broadway shows that my mother took me to as a child.  

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