For a person of
many interests, years can pass before one or more of those begin to develop any depth.
A watercolorist,
Deborah Grabber has witnessed some of this in her life. In fact, someone, surprised to see her at an
Art Educator's Conference recently, exclaimed she thinks of her as a
botanist and forgot she was an art educator!
Deborah has turned her love of the
rustic out-of-doors and her desire to
create and communicate through the
arts into
landscapes of light and color.
She also enjoys playing with shapes and patterns in
bold colors.
Though
Deborah, with her husband, has called
Millinocket, Maine, her home for over 30 years, she grew up and was educated in
New York State, receiving a
BA in Education with a
Minor in Art.
Sensing the need of a more solid art background,
Deborah has been an avid reader of
art literature and studied under Maine artists,
Michael Vermette and
Michael Lewis.
She has admired historical master artist
Durer, Rembrandt,
Michelangelo and J.M.W. Turner, as well as the more contemporary arts at
O'Keeffe, Escher, Homer, the
Wyeths, and James Fitzgerald.
'Lindies' Flowers' is of a variety of the
Poeticus Narcissi. I painted these for my sister-in-law. I had
rescued the bulbs years ago from an overgorwn, wooded roadside, close to where my husband and I lived in a
log cabin. I couldn't let someone's long forgotten sense of
beauty go silently into the shadows of the forest. Their
progeny have graced my yards for many years now. Unframed print: 9" x 12" with ½-inch border (10" x 13" final size) - $60.
