About the Artist
Nature and Art have remained constant throughout Deb’s life and career.
As a child she loved exploring the woods, streams and lakes that surrounded her home. It isn’t surprising that nature played such a big role in re-awakening her dream to be an artist.
With a lifelong love and talent for art, Deb was guided early on to pursue commercial art as her vocation. This journey has been diverse with design and illustration experience in the giftware, display, print and video industries. After a long career in design she has found her true love in painting.
A week long, plein air workshop in Wyoming turned out to be her artistic and personal epiphany. After a week of total immersion into art and the mountains, she came away with an awakened sense of passion for painting and nature and she has been committed to her painting ever since.
Deb currently lives in Minnetonka, MN and when she is not painting, she is a designer and conceptual artist in the broadcast industry. She strives to paint every day and is working towards devoting more time to her art. She is a member of Outdoor Painters of Minnesota and a juried artist with Daily Painters and Daily Paintworks online gallery.
Statement
I am inspired to paint many subjects, but at the heart of each painting is a celebration of the beauty and spirit of nature. It is my response to a bigger picture that we, as humanity, are just one small part of.
As much as it is an appreciation of all living things, for me, it is also a spiritual connection. A place I go for comfort and inspiration. It is a part of me as much as I am a part of it.
I find inspiration in the graceful curve of a branch, the shimmer of color and light upon a bird's wing, a flower dancing on the wind – each whispers of stories and moments wanting to be shared.
My art is the expression of the sense of joy that nature awakens in me. I offer the viewer a place to rest, discover its delights and to honor its presence. And in the process of discovery, perhaps bring an awareness of its essential role to our existence. Its loss would be a loss of our very source and spirit.
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