waterlilies 16x20 oil sold

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Resume

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 mentions
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, Kauai
Deborah 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, HI
Poudre 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

daphne's roses

daphne's roses
8x10 oil sold

fancy hat (santa fe spanish market)

fancy hat (santa fe spanish market)
oil 8x10

costume competition (santa fe indian market)

costume competition (santa fe indian market)
oil 11x14

tidepool (secret beach kauai)

tidepool (secret beach kauai)
8x10 oil

launched

launched
9x12 oil

hang on (lahela and alakai)

hang on (lahela and alakai)
11x14 oil

swirls of sunlight

swirls of sunlight
8x10 oil

magdalena (san miguel de allende)

magdalena (san miguel de allende)
16x20 oil