Debra Joyce Dawson
Oil Painting
  • Founding member, trustee, past president & past Board Chair
  • Regional Editor "Fine Art Connoisseur" Magazine      

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.

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Gallery Info

New Location: Alexandria, OH
Sunbear Studio and Gallery
3 W. Main St.
PO Box 126
Alexandria, Ohio
43001
740.924.2656
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