Title: Bella Natura
Medium: Acrylics and polyurethane

Artist: Deborah Byron
Hometown: Fayetteville

Contributing Sponsor: Arlington Hotel

Exhibitor: Summit Bank
                                                  Exhibit Location: 333 Ouachita

Artist Bio: As a native Arkansan, Deborah's early sensibilities were shaped by the natural beauty of the central river valley and lakes of the Ouachita mountains. Later in life, without formal artistic training, she found a way to think about color by means of grounding in Goethean observation and color theory. 

Through studies in drawing and veiled watercolor painting with California artists Ken Goldman and Jan Boss, she has gradually been able to bring the laws of light, darkness and color formation to her artistic projects. Following work with lazure artist Robert Longsdon, she employs the same understanding to create delicate veils of transparent color on large interior wall spaces. 

A psychotherapist by training, she also uses clay modeling and watercolor to help with the exploration of life-story patterns through the seven year cycles.

Artist Interpretation: "By whatever humble means, I aspire artistically, through a particular vision of the commonplace, to open a doorway, for myself and others, into the impalpable mysteries of nature. It has been my experience that in moments of tranquility stolen from an often hectic life, the contemplation of things most ordinary and familiar to us can lead toward a magical environment, one that is barely visible to the hurried passersby. 

"A simple wooden chair, for instance, invites us to pause for a moment-relax, alter our gaze-and, from the comfort of its resting place, to see what surrounds us as something entirely new. 

"As the poet Novalis so beautifully stated from his 18th century vantage point, 'By giving the commonplace a higher meaning, the familiar an enigmatic look, the known the prestige of the unknown, the finite the appearance of the infinite-I make it Romantic."

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