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Debbie
Stevens
Debbie was born in
Stillwater Oklahoma in 1955. Her family moved to Texas in 1968. She now resides
in Cypress, Texas.
She graduated summa cum
laude in the spring of 2004 from the University of Texas at San Antonio
with a B.F.A. (concentration in painting). She has studied landscape, still
life, and figure with contemporary masters Dalhart Windberg, Robert A.
Johnson and Scott Burdick. She has attended workshops in bird photography
with nationally acclaimed wildlife photographers Jim Nieger and Arthur
Morris.
She is an associate member
of the Oil Painters of America, associate member of the Society of Animal
Artists and a member of the International Guild of Realism.
Artist
Statement
My
work is created with a devotion to traditional realism using glazes and wet
into wet techniques. I look for subjects in nature and the environment - not
for what they are or represent, but for their own particular properties of
texture, transparency, reflection, and color. I find these properties
especially prevalent in my studies of birds. My intense passion for birds entails more
than just casual observation. It has
grown from initially visiting zoos and photographing endangered species for
reference photos to now researching and traveling along their migration
routes to capture their behavior during spring and fall migration, as well
as being actively involved in wildlife conservation. It is my sincere desire that, when
looking at my work, the viewer experiences the wonderment of the birds in
their natural habitat.
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