About The Artist
Deborah’s artistic journey began in her early years in Marin County. Her childhood was spent hiking along the trails of Mount Tamalpais and riding horses across the Marin Headlands. These beautiful places ignited a lifelong love of the outdoors. Specializing in landscapes and seascapes, Deborah reveals the interplay of light, color and texture with vibrant hues and thoughtful compositions. She paints en plein air to capture the freshness of natural settings in real time. Deborah brings both formal education and professional experience to her art. She graduated with a BS in Fine Art from the University of Oregon, followed by a BFA with honors from the Art Center College of Design. She worked for years as an art director for Saatchi and Saatchi Advertising Agency in San Francisco. After relocation to Southern Nevada with her husband and children, Deborah began painting professionally in 2003. Deborah maintains her successful career as a painter of landscapes and seascapes but is actively engaged in exploring new artistic directions. Her current series — “Beautiful Abandonment” — features abandoned signage in abstracted settings that reveal themselves to be logically impossible only after closer view. Deborah’s profound sensitivity to beauty is grounded in a commitment to the physicality of paint and canvas and brush. These are the tools which unveil her particular way of seeing.
Oil Paint
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Exhibitions & Press
2024 Marin Open Studio Winter Group Exhibit Juried Marin Art and Garden Center Ross, CA
2024 American Impressionist Society Juried Online National Exhibit
2024 Sausalito Invitational Plein Air Event Award Honorable Mention Judge Craig Nelson Sausalito, CA
2024 Capitola Plein Air Paint Out Juried Event Capitola, CA
2024 Mendocino Paint out Mendocino, CA
2024 Frank Bette Plein Air Juried Event Award Honorable Mention Judge Barbara Tapp Alameda, CA
2024 Paint Historical Waxahachie Awarded Honorable Mention Judge: Patrick Saunders
2023 School of Visual Arts Awarded Artist in Residency New York, NY
2023 Salmagundi Club Animals: Domestic and Working, Juried exhibitor New York, NY
2023 Salmagundi Club Members Show: Juried exhibitor New York, NY
2023 Oil Painters of America National Show, Juried exhibitor, Reinert Gallery, Charleston, SC
2023 Desert Plein Air Award “Best of Show” Judge: Jean Stern, Director Emeritus of the Irvine Museum, CA
2022 Capitola Plein Air Invitational Event Capitola, California
2022 American Impressionist Society Members “Online show”
2022 Laguna Plein Air Painters Association “Squared” Juried Show, Laguna, California
2022 Frank Bette Plein Air Event Award 2nd Place Judge Camille Przewodek Alameda, CA
2021 American Impressionist Society National “Small Works” Exhibit Reinert Gallery, Charleston, SC
2021 American Impressionist Society “Online show” Juried Show
2021 Capitola Plein Air Competition Juried Event Award Honorable Mention Judge Paul Kratter Capitola, CA
2021 Laguna Plein Air Painters Association “Less is More” Juried Show, Laguna, California
2021 Laguna Plein Air Painters Association “Squared” Juried Show, Laguna, California
2021 Frank Bette Plein Air Competition Juried Exhibitor Alameda, California
2019 Salmagundi Club Annual Members Show New York, New York
2019 Purchase Award American Impressionistic Society National “Small Works” Crooked Tree Gallery, MI
2019 Laguna Plein Air Painters Association “Unexpected Places” Forest & Ocean Gallery Laguna, California
2024 Modern Impressionism Salon Award Honorable Mention Judge Camille Przewodek March/April Issue
2024 Plein Air Magazine Salon Award Top 100 Finalist Winner April Issue
2023 Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine “Landscapes” May/June Issue
2021 Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine “Beloved Creatures Great and Small” February Issue
2021 Laguna Plein Air Painters Association “Artist of the Month” LPAPA June Issue
2019 Plein Air Magazine “Doors, Windows, and Passageways” January Issue
2015 Marin Magazine “Cover Competition” August Issue
2015 Southwest Art Magazine “Artist of Note” August Issue
Education
B.F.A. Honors Graphic Design Art Center College of Design Pasadena, California
B.S. Fine Art University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
New York Art Students League New York, New York
School of Visual Arts Painting Residency New York, New York
