Richard Donadio

Rich Donadio is a contemporary impressionistic artist and physician who grew up in New Jersey but has been residing in Georgia for the last twenty years. He started his career as an Aerospace Engineer after graduating from New Jersey Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Engineering Technology. He worked in industry on government projects for three years before entering medical school. He initially went to Grenada for two years and then completed his Doctor of Medicine at New York Medical College. He completed two residencies, his final one at The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. He has an MBA from the University of Phoenix.

He became interested in art when family members (father, bother, and cousin all mechanical engineers) would show mechanical drawings of futuristic cars and vehicles they had made. He started drawing in his teens and continued on through his employment as an Aerospace Engineer at the Singer Kearfott Company. At The Singer Company, he worked on test equipment for F15, F16, and B1 Bomber on board computer systems. After leaving this company, he was occupied with medical school and residency and had to put aside his love for art and drawing.
After moving to Georgia in 1996, some years later, he began to get involved in oil paintings when a gentleman at a local art festival told him that he could “teach him to paint in four hours.” He took him up on the offer and travelled to the man’s studio. The man was right and Dr. Rich has been painting ever since. He has had lessons over the years from the artist, Frank Murphy. 
Rich Donadio has also written a children’s book entitled “The Big Red Car” (Dr. Rich), in which he sketched the initial artwork for the book. He has performed as an actor on stage in the Beauty and the Beast play in the Cedartown, Georgia, Civic Center, and appeared in films twice (A Larger Life, and The System).
Dr. Rich Donadio has traveled to Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Brazil providing medical aid to those in need through local churches which have international representation.