Artist Bio
Debra began painting in watercolor while studying with Cory Staid in Andover, Ma. as a teenager. She also studied with a variety of other artists after moving to California. While attending Las Positas Collage in Livermore, California, she painted primarily in acrylics and watercolor, receiving a more structured, formal training. Eventually she received an AA Degree in Fine Arts, emphasis painting. Debra was Director of Visual Arts for a program called “Fame” for the Livermore Public School system before moving back to New England. In New England, she was a teacher at the Currier Museum of Art Center and the East Colony Gallery. Where she taught Watercolor and taught various Workshops, including Collage, Encaustic Wax painting and Mono-type.
Materials and Techniques: : Landscape oil painting is how Debra celebrates our visual paradise where we live here in New England. She likes to portray this subject in an expressional color manner. The large oil paintings (24” x 48” and 30” x 48”) are painted on a 2 ½ inch deep Fine Art stretched gallery wrapped canvas, medium and small (16” x 40” to 6’ x 6’) inch deep canvas. Debra also has worked in many mediums including multi-media collage and monotypes.
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