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Featured Artist for August 1997
Orange Composition exhibits energy, movement and balance. The gestural strokes and sweeps of color indicate quickness. -- So sure in her painting, we see pure and confident abstract marks. Meet the Artist
About The
Artist She says computers are a mystery to her but she enjoys the communication it provides in promoting her style of art. When she was a student she was well aware that playing the radio allowed her to focus on her work. She is now trying to be a good listener of classical music and has some light and snappy views to art... -- keep an eye on the roundness of a curve in order to make it be accurate, --constantly measure distance from different points, --quick gestural drawing establishes action and porportion, --erasure will express a being less graceful so make the line accurate and draw over a line instead of erasing, --keep a light hand, --use shadow to define line and work both positive and negative space, --flat shadings are effective, --contour shadings make detail out of porportion as the light falls in one shade.
Deborah creates traditional landscape paintings instead of simply photographing the scenes. She seems to live in a spirit of perfection with nature and tradition. These abstract works are her largest renderings and are approximately 3 x 4 feet. She continues to use the 7 color limited pallette for oil painting but acrylics have her interest right now.
Education
1977-1980
Keene State College, Keen, NH 1982
Sharon Arts Center, Sharon, NH 1987 West Texas State University, Canyon, TX
Selected Exhibitions 1997
Ongoing interactive show, Art Communications 1995
School House Gallery, N Truno, MA 1994 Vermont
Studio Center, Johnson, VT 1993
The Souhegan Marketplace, Milford, NH 1983-1985
Wayne Greene Enterprises, 1982
Sharon Arts Center, Sharon, NH
In Galaxy, I felt far out in the cosmos, so I resorted to geometric structure for balance. The gold area at the base of the painting lends grounding with the free movements and small areas of color that are balanced here and there. I like the bright red and it works here because there is a very little bit of red in the blue background.
Faded Glory is successful because the values of the colors are all quite close. It isn't really faded -- the contrasts are in the hue of the color rather than in the values. I experimented with brushing the paint after it had begun to dry to gain some fine lines. I work with what I call my throws -- the way paint is applied, these lines are not applied delicately so I am glad that I achieved this quality. Another way the paint is applied is in uninhibited gestures.
Contact the Artist Please Email ArtQuest for sales information ARTIST STATEMENT My paintings are about color and emotion as well as balance. I was trained to produce representational paintings but very much enjoy the freedom to create in the abstract. A good landscape is also very abstract and a way of communicating on paper. These communications are the same in both types of paintings, an abstract and a landscape or still life have the same elements as does a portrait. I experience much joyousness in the use of color. ~ Deborah Stone |
Ronald E Alvarez 
Meet
Deborah who loves to garden and hike up mountains to paint the scenes. So far
this year, she's climbed Cardigan Mountain at 3200' and Mt. Washington at 6300'.
Now that's what I call some real active exercise ! She also just returned from
a hike up the White Mountains of New Hampshire. This photo was taken of her (with
sketchpad, of course...) in the midst of mother nature's wonderland at Zealand
Falls after her 4032 foot descent from Mt. Hale. She also enjoys planning meals
for hiking activities and has lots of great recipes to share -- she says hikers
demand gourmet food in their rustic cabins. She believes it's the one time to
consume food guilt-free as hiking burns many calories. She also enjoys swimming
the breaststroke across New Hampshire lakes and ponds ! She has biked over 1110
miles since January 1997. Are we all tired yet ! Deborah has so much energy no
wonder you can experience it at once in her vibrant paintings. She also believes
in those calmer moments and enjoys reading, knitting and researching new stitches
to design sweaters. 
Deborah
was born in Massachusetts but has lived in New Hampshire since age 3. Her serious
art study began at age 15 with self study. Instruction in meditation and yoga
at that time greatly influenced her ability to focus on contour drawing and gestural
expression in such a way that the study became an intergral part of her life.
In 1992, after 21 years of study, academic orientation and 7 years of painting
with a limited pallette, Deborah came into her mature and current style of painting.
She now works on large canvases with an unlimited pallette using acrylic paint
instead of the oil paints of the masters she studied for so long. 
A quote that interests her by William C. Seagal/Color Ass. of US, "Already the
new generation, unabashed in its use of color, is making unprecedented demands
that major academic, professional, and scientific disciplines are only beginning
to understand." 
1976 Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA 
1996 Keene State College, Keene, NH 
Two Women Show 
