Alain Donnat was born in 1947.

After secondary studies, he followed various occupations before becoming head of compagny in the eighties.

Wounded following an accident, he left business world and started to naive painting, his passion of always.

Self-taught artist, he exposes his first painting locally.

He was quickly discovered by several galerists and more particulary by Jacqueline Bricard (French specialist in naive art) wich encourage him to continue.

Since, Alain Donnat exposes in various french and foreign galleries.