About the Artist
D
ebbie has spent her career as a successful graphic artist and owner of Graphic Group Studio for the past 30 years. She has simultaneously studied classical painting and drawing for over 10 years.
Debbie studied at Stevenson Academy of Art, with Atilla Hajja, and Long Island Academy of Art, with Robert Armetta, Steve Forster
and Dave Peikon.
She recently won best in show in a regional painting contest, has exhibited in a two person show at Hersch Fine Art Gallery in Glen Cove, NY, and a juried show at Gold Light Gallery in New Hope, PA; and has several paintings in private collections. Her work has recently been accepted into the 2017 National Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils at the Eisele Gallery of Fine Art in Cincinnati, Ohio
WORKSHOPS
Stephen Assael, demonstration; Stephen Bauman, summer portrait workshop 2014, 2015, 2016,visiting instructor from Florence Academy of Art; Patrick Conners, perspective workshop, LIAFA; Jon DeMartin, Drawing Workshop; Ben Fenske, summer semester visiting instructor from Florence Academy of Art, Plein Air Painting; Cornelia Hernes,Florence Academy of Art, Still Life Workshop; Carlo Russo, Still Life Workshop; Tony Ryder, Demonstration; Nelson Shanks, Demonstration; Richard Schmid, Demonstration; Eric Tobin, Plein Air Painting; John Wellington, Demonstration.
She is a member of:
American Women Artists, dedicated to the inspiration, celebration, and encouragement of Women in the Arts
Oil Painters of America, dedicated to the Preservation of Representational Art