Lasting Impressions Summer 2023

An intuitive painter, Deborah uses recall, feelings and music as stimulation. Her paintings are part observation and part imagination. While working mostly in oils on canvas or paper, she also uses watercolor, gouache, oil pastels, and ink on paper. Her subjects and styles vary from loosely painted florals, wetlands and other nature-influenced subjects to biomorphic abstractions.

When she was a child, Deborah’s family lived on the grounds of the Bayard Cutting Arboretum, where her love of nature became rooted in her soul along with her passion for music, color, shapes and light. Her goal is to keep an ambiguity in her work while allowing viewers their own interpretation, a kind of “visual music.”

Deborah, curator of the Alfred Van Loen Gallery for 16 years, is a graduate of SUNY Stony Brook and studied painting with Stan Brodsky, among others, for whom she worked as an assistant from 2010-13.

The exhibit may be viewed during regular library hours. For a virtual tour, click the video below.

For more information about Deborah’s paintings, CLICK HERE.