Sri Debi

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Gender Female
Industry Arts
Occupation Plein Air Oil Painter
Location Pataskala, Ohio, United States
Introduction Permanent Collections : Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio Supreme Court, Ohio Historical Society, Central Ohio Diabetes Association, Open Heart Recovery Unit, University Hospital, Baltimore, MD, Richmond Art Museum, IN; Private collections in the US, England, France and New Zealand "Debra Joyce Dawson paints colorful, evocative outdoor landscapes. She travels extensively, and her paintings can serve as a painterly travelogue to India, Bhutan, England, Ireland, as well as to her more local surroundings. Her medium of choice is oil, with preparatory sketches in graphite, charcoal, pen or watercolor. Some works are small and completed en plein air; other works are larger and more complex renderings done in her studio. Her energy and delight in color, light, and shape are dazzling. But she never surrenders her subject, and each building, boat, hillside, or human figure is carefully pinned to the picture plane in the context of its surroundings. This places her in the best context of American Impressionism, whether one considers John Singer Sargent or Ohio’s own Alice Schille or Edward Henry Potthast." - Susan Talbot-Stanoway, Director Zanesville Museum of Art
Interests Plein air painting, music, literature, writing, people, India, French language, French movies, travel, ideas.
Favorite Movies Gosford Park, Amelie, Charade, Dangerous Liaisons, Midnight in Paris
Favorite Music Leonard Cohen, Melissa Ethridge, Indian, French, Adele
Favorite Books Hawthorne on Painting