"Debra Joyce Dawson paints colorful, evocative outdoor landscapes. She travels extensively, and her paintings serve as a painterly record of a moment in time, whether it be in Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, or in 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; while her studio works are larger and more complex in idea and execution. 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
Founding Member, Past President Ohio Plein Air Society
Regional Editor Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine
• Ohio Arts Council commissioned nine paintings for the 2012 Governor's Awards for the Arts
• 1st Place - 2012 Art in the Open Plein Air Competition, Wexford, Ireland
• Winner 2012 Art in the Open Contest - sponsored by Plein Air Artists website!
• Winner in the 2010 'The Artist's Magazine Competition' (Dec. 2010 issue)
• Top Prize Winner - 'Art at the Arnold 2010
• Hiawatha National Forest Artist in Residence 2004
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:
Columbus Museum of Art • Richmond Art Museum, IN • Ohio Arts Council • Ohio Supreme Court • Ohio Historical Society • Central Ohio Diabetes Association • Open Heart Recovery Unit, University Hospital, Baltimore, MD
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS around the USA, Australia, England, Ireland, France, New Zealand, B. Eric Rhoads (Publisher Plein Air Magazine and Fine Art Connoissuer Magazine), Don Grote (Donato's Pizza), and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
PUBLICATIONS:
- The Artist's Magazine, April 2012: "Makimg Your Own Mark"
- The Artist's Magazine, December 2010 (Annual Competition issue)
- American Art Collector, May 2009
- Contemporary American Realism: 2008 - Exhibition catalog
- www.createbetterpaintings.com - an online artzine
"Artist to Artist: interview with Michael McEwan", March 2008
- Tashi Delek Magazine, Druk Air's in-flight magazine,
2007 July - September issue - pages 38 - 44
http://www.tashidelek.in/pdfs/july07.pdf
- American Artist magazine feature article
"Painting En Plein Air in South India," January 2006
- TimeLine magazine, back cover, March 2005
- Plein Air magazine, January 2005
- The Land We Call Ohio, full-color book 2003
