Artist Bio

An Arizona-based artist, Deb loves the looseness, energetic textures, whimsy and transparency of watercolor batik on paper. Her art is featured in galleries and has numerous won awards.

Growing up in the Midwest, Deb has always found very creative ways to express herself within daily life whether it be home decorating, large mural painting or photography. She has studied Commercial Art and has a Web Design degree. Deb considers herself to be a self-taught artist and continues to hone her skills.

Deb loves the journey for the next inspiring image and how she can interpret, embellish and re-invent it. She uses her own photography or finds images that inspire her. Nature from the rural area in which she lives provides lots of subject matter. Observing the drama of the light, color, shadow and reflection are the most important elements.. Capturing the light is everything!  

She visualizes the potential image transformation in the batik style and transfers the image is to the rice type paper. 

After the batik process is complete and the final art piece is revealed she get chills every single time.

Unlike traditional batik using dyes, hot wax and fabric, watercolor batik uses watercolor paint, hot wax and paper.

With this method, there will be permanent pen markings, unintentional drips of wax and spreading watercolor. 

These unexpected additions will actually create the uniqueness to this type of the art.