Deborah Bays
Romantic Art Prints
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Deborah
Bays has been blessed with a life in the Arts. She was born in
Nashville, Tennessee, in 1951 and spent her early years in the
formal study of music, playing violin and viola. In college, her
focus shifted to her first love, that of making visual art. She
earned a Bachelor of Arts in Costume Design for the Theater at the
University of Texas at Austin then went on to complete a Master of
Arts in Scenography at Purdue University. She settled in Denver
and for two and a half decades designed costumes and sets for
Regional Repertory Theater, The Hong Kong Repertory Theater, The
Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Harrah’s, Off Broadway and Public
Television.
After
so many years of making art as a member of a team, she longed for
a more personal expression. This led her to study drawing and
painting with many fine artists and teachers at the Art
Student’s League of Denver. While she still has a passion for
both theater and music, nothing has proved as profound a challenge
or as rewarding as painting. Her favorite medium is pastel and her
favorite subject is light revealing form and conversely, form
revealing light.
Her
work has been featured in Southwest
Art, Colorado
Expression and The
Pastel Journal where she received The
Pastel Journal Grand Prize Award in the 2004 Pastel 100.
One of her paintings will also be included in a new book published
by North Light Books, Pure
Color: The Best of Pastel. Currently her work is
represented by galleries on both coasts as well as in Colorado.
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