Deb has a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts from Pacific Northwest College of Art and has been exhibiting around the Portland area since 2001.  Whenever possible Deb also volunteers her time and art to help out her local communities.  She has volunteered as a juror for the Wilsonville Art Commission, curator for the Brickwall Gallery, and to work on art projects with school districts in need including Hillsboro and Yamhill.  She has donated artwork to help in fundraising for the Audubon Society, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, the Relay for Life and others.  When she is not in her studio, she is also teaching painting, drawing and print making in her community.

For Deb it is enough simply to guide the process in her artwork, not control it.  Rather, she allows the work to grow and develop.  She may begin to draw a tree, but she does not plan where every branch will be.  No matter how often it happens, she is surprised when everything is where it should be in the end.  As she brings materials together, the artwork grows and matures.  She enjoys using natural materials including handmade papers, wax, organic threads, raw pigments and inks.  She does not know before she begins where it will all end.  To put it in her words...If she did, why begin?