The inspiration came in 1976. My accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior of my life turned me around 180 degrees. God set me free to be me, then I could paint. Accepting a friend's challenge I went to a watercolor workshop in Taos, New Mexico and got hooked on watercolor. Thirty years later I am hooked on oils. I love both mediums...the fluidity of watercolors and the juiciness of oils. I am basically self-taught, but have taken workshops from such nationally know artists as Charles Reid, Daniel Greene, Ramon Kelley, Ned Jacob, Harley Brown, and Zoltan Szabo. I hope you get hooked with the same spirit I did.
I met my husband, Keith, at the University of Colorado where I earned my BA. We raised our three children in Fort Collins, Colorado for 25 years, and then moved to Princeville, Kauai where we lived eight years. We live in Santa Fe, NM and San Carlos, Mexico.
Exhibitions:
San Carlos Mexico show
Summertime Solo Show Mark Zoeller Gallery Canyon Rd Santa Fe NM American Academy of Women Artists Visions of America
Bennington Center for the Arts, Vermont, NH
Richard Schmid Art Auctions Fort Collins CO
Summertime-Celebrating 40 Years of Culture and The Arts in Hawaii
Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts
AAWA Associate juried show Patron's Gallery, Denver CO
AAWA Signature juried show 2001 Merrill-Johnson Gallery Denver CO
Hawaii Watercolor Society Signature Artists curated show
Academy of Art Honolulu
Art Kauai juried shows, Lihue HI
The Hawaiian People Kinipopo Gallery Kapaa Kauai
Hawaii Watercolor Society juried shows
Artist in Residence, Village Galleries Ritz-Carlton Maui
Figure multi-artist show Village Galleries Lahaina Maui
Rainbow Within Us Village Galleries Ritz-Carlton Hotel Maui
and many other shows
Awards:
Lou Lou Harris Memorial
Jean C. Beall Memorial
Bobbie Segler Memorial (for luminosity) twice
honorable mentionsJean C. Beall Memorial
Bobbie Segler Memorial (for luminosity) twice
Hawaii State Foundation for Culture and the Arts
(three purchase awards)
Memberships:
Signature Member of the Hawaii Watercolor
Collections:
Hawaii State Foundation for Culture and the Arts
Gloria’s Spouting Horn Bed and Breakfast, Poipu, KauaiDeborah Szekely's Rancho la Puerta Spa, Tecate, Mexico
Wilcox Memorial Hospital, Lihue, Kauai
many other private collections: Beau Bridges, William Kreutzman (Grateful Dead),
US, Canada, Japan, Mexico and Europe
Commissions:
Kapiolani Mother and Children’s Hospital Honolulu HI (6 paintings)
Village Resorts executive offices Honolulu, HIPoudre Valley Memorial Hospital Fort Collins CO
many private family commissions of children, mothers and babies
Publications:
Hawaiian Airlines Mea Ho’Okipa Service postcards, 140,000
Pacific Art and Travel magazine 3 Covers, The PEO Record (print sales benefited PEO Foundation)
2 Covers, Alpha Phi Quarterly (print sales benefited Heart Foundation)
Princess Cruise Lines on board Auctions, 10 images of 500 each (Ltd Edition Prints)
deborahrobinsonart@yahoo.com
505/990-7141