Donnie Copeland studied painting at the University of Dallas (MFA) and at Ouachita Baptist University (BA). Copeland works primarily with acrylic and paper on canvas to produce non-objective paintings that emphasize pattern, texture, color and mark. Copeland’s works are a synthesis of the visuality of landscapes such as planted fields and prairie that run along the rivers of Arkansas as well as that of peoples and cultures local and distant, rural and urban. His work has been exhibited in Arkansas and beyond.