She attended the University of Texas at San Antonio and graduated summa cum laude in the spring of 2004 with a Bachelors of Fine Arts, concentrating in painting. She has studied landscape, still life, and figure painting with contemporary masters Dalhart Windberg, Robert A. Johnson, Scott Burdick and Jeff Legg and has attended workshops in bird photography with nationally acclaimed wildlife photographers Jim Nieger and Arthur Morris.

Debbie is an Associate Member of the Oil Painters of America, Associate Member of the Society of Animal Artists and a Member of the International Guild of Realism.

Artist Statement
My work is created with a devotion to traditional realism using glazes and wet into wet techniques. I look for subjects in nature and the environment - not for what they are or represent, but for their own particular properties of texture, transparency, reflection, and color. I find these properties especially prevalent in my studies of birds.  My intense passion for birds entails more than just casual observation.  It has grown from initially visiting zoos and photographing endangered species for reference photos to now researching and traveling along their migration routes to capture their behavior during spring and fall migration, as well as being actively involved in wildlife conservation.  It is my sincere desire that, when looking at my work, the viewer experiences the wonderment of the birds in their natural habitat.