deb’s unique style, which she calls “soft realism”, is a layering of thought, paint and possibilities.
Over a long professional career, her work has been widely published. Working in oils, graphite, and a pastel and watercolor mix, she specializes in expressive portraits . The eyes in her art capture the spark of life. Her sensitive drawings have been featured in the North Light book series “Strokes of Genius: The Best of Drawing” and in “Art Journey Animals”, a best of animal artwork compendium. Her “Homeless Christ” has appeared in books, magazines, churches, homeless shelters and more, reaching from Key West to Australia.
deb has illustrated four award-winning children’s books, “All You Want And Then Some”, “Lucky: The Tale of a Tree”, “A Friend On The Porch” and “Forever Home: Tales of Four Lucky Dogs”. An illustration created for her children’s book “Silent Swoop: An Owl, an Egg, and a Warm Pocket”, is now in the collection of the Mazza Museum of Picture Book Art.
The true tales of rescued creatures have been the subject of her previous books so when the inspiring true story of a little horse who found a way to save his entire family of 32 Morgan horses was sent to her, it was the perfect project. Created as a fundraiser for the Equine Rescue League in Virginia where the rescue occurred, the book, “Trucker: The True Story of a Hero Colt”, tells this story in deb’s sensitive drawings and is now available.
deb’s studio is open by appointment. Author Lynn Whitman came from Connecticut to view original art for her book “Forever Home: Tales of Four Lucky Dogs”.
Partial Client List: A&P, AT&T, Bradford Exchange, Braille Institute, Common Threads, Concord Litho, Dawn Publications, Kingdom Breweries Ltd., Medical Economics, NY Daily News, New York Times, Patrick Henry College, Patriot’s Path Foundation, PC Magazine, Prudential, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, Random House, Ripon Society, Salvation Army, Simon & Schuster, TIAA-Cref, Unix, US News & World Report, Washington City Paper.
Member of Artsbridge, Arts & Cultural Council of Bucks County, Bucks County Illustrators Society and NJ Creatives Network.
Original art and books are also available at The Upstairs Gallery.
Partial Exhibit List:
1975 Contemporary Crafts Exhibition, Delaware Art Museum
1988 Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Exhibition, New York, NY
1998 Morris County Art Association, Morristown, NJ, award
1989 Ringwood Manor Association for the Arts Exhibition, Ringwood, NJ, award
2002 Society of Illustrators Prevailing Human Spirit Exhibition, New York, NY
2005, 2006 Juried Drawing Exhibition, Mixed Media Gallery, Doylestown, PA
2006 Artsbridge Works on Paper Exhibit, Lambertville, NJ
2006 Gallery Opening Group Show, Gallery Bellaria, Bryn Mawr, PA
2006 Summer Exhibition, Gallery Bellaria, Bryn Mawr, PA
2006 From Bristol to Easton” Bucks County Gallery, New Hope, PA
2006 The Artist Looks at Hunterdon County, Stockton, NJ
2006, 2007, 2009 Phillips Mill Art Exhibition, New Hope, PA
2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 Tinicum Arts Festival, Erwinna, PA, award
2007 Juried Art Show, Mixed Media Gallery, Doylestown, PA
2006-7 Holiday Show, Gallery Bellaria, Bryn Mawr, PA
2007 Visual Passages, Canal Frame-Crafts Gallery, Washington Crossing, PA, award
2007, 2008, 2009, award, Artsbridge Juried Show, Riverrun Gallery, Lambertville, NJ
Phillustration ‘07, Phillustration ‘09, award, Phillustration ‘10, Phillustration ’12, Philadelphia Sketch Club
2008, Inside the Artist’s Studio, II, Bucks Gallery of Fine Art, Newtown, PA
2010 Artsbridge Members Show, Stockton, NJ, award
2010 Phillips’ Mill 81st Annual Fall Exhibition, New Hope, PA
2010 NOVA Galaxy Art Show, Doylestown, PA, awards
2010 New Hope Art League 1st Juried Show, Stockton, NJ
2011 Phillips’ Mill 82nd Annual Fall Exhibition, New Hope, PA
2011 Artsbridge Members Show, Stockton, NJ
2013, 2015 Byers Bucks Fever Art Exhibition, Bucks County, PA
2013 The Art of Illustration, Exhibit of the Bucks County Illustrators Society, Pearl Buck Cultural Center, Dublin, PA
2014 Proud To Be An American Exhibit, Bucks County Community College, Bristol, PA
2014 Phillips’ Mill 85th Annual Juried Exhibition, New Hope, PA
2015 Show Some HeArt Exhibit, Bucks County Community College, Bristol, PA, award
2015 Covered Bridges & Barns Exhibit, Rich Timmons Gallery, Doylestown, PA
2016 Fantasy Tales, A Bucks County Illustrators Showcase, Scatter Joy Center for the Arts, Horsham, PA
2016, 2017 Phillips’ Mill 87th and 88th Annual Juried Exhibitions, New Hope, PA
2017, 2018 Phillustration, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Art of the Horse, New Jersey Equine Artists’ Association 8th National Juried Exhibition, Stockton, NJ, award
2018 Black & White, 32nd Annual Bucks Fever Art Exhibition, Jamison, PA, award
2018 Bucks County Illustrators Society Fantasy Tales Exhibit, Cabrini University, Radnor, PA
2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022 Tinicum Arts Festival, Tinicum Park, Erwinna, PA, awards
2019 Drawn From Nature, 13th Annual Juried Exhibition, The John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, PA
2019 Artists of Yardley 8th Annual Juried Show, Yardley, PA
2019, 2020 Philadelphia Sketch Club Small Oils Juried Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
2020 Phillips’ Mill 91st Annual Art Exhibition, New Hope, PA
2020 Phillustration, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA, award
2021 New Hope Arts Spring Salon, New Hope, PA
2022 Arts & Cultural Council RED Exhibit
2022 Hicks Art Center Gallery, Wonders Illustrated Exhibition, Newtown, PA
2023 Philadelphia Sketch Club Small Oils Juried Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA, Portrait Award
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