Debbie was born
in Stillwater
Oklahoma in 1955. Her family moved to
Texas in 1968. She now
resides in Cypress,
Texas.
She graduated
summa cum laude in the spring of 2004 from the University
of Texas at San Antonio with a BFA concentrating in
painting. She has studied landscape and still-lifes with Dalhart Windberg,
still-lifes and figure painting with Robert A. Johnson and figure drawing and
painting with Scott Burdick. She has attended workshop in bird photography with
Jim Nieger and Arthur Morris.
She 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.