EVENT

Women of the West

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Tuesday, March 1, 2016
9:30am – 5:00pm
CU South Denver 10035 S Peoria St Parker, CO 80134

Debra Jones - Artist Statement and Bio

“I paint anything with eyeballs."

Most of my career has been as a portrait painter - human and animal!   Born and raised in Colorado, now living in Arizona, my portraits are not from the quiet East Coast tradition.  Westerners are proud of our individualism and have a different kind of history.  Our history is younger, sturdier, and our people show recent wisdom in faces telling their OWN stories, not just the legends. The culture and soul of the modern West, not simply the shadows of past lives, my work is inspired by the modern Native American people as well as the modern-day cowboy.  That is what I try to convey in my portraits. I feature the women of the West showing their beauty, not just their pretty.