Through accident or design, you've arrived at the website for Deborah DeWit. Please wander through the results of my 35 year love of image making, both past and recent paintings, pastels, photographs and books. Here you will also be able to read about the ongoing restoration of Huckleberry Farm, the gone wild land and rustic, but stately house my husband filmmaker Carl Vandervoort and I purchased in 2009. A project of creation itself, it naturally belongs beside my artwork, and will undoubtedly inspire future images and stories. As the studio is built and new artwork is made, these developments will also be posted here as they unfold. I hope you enjoy visiting my world. Please contact me with questions or comments. I'd love to hear from you.
April 25, 2012
The Kingfisher
April 4, 2012
Spring
February 18, 2012
The Black Walnut
February 8, 2012
Sheep
January 20, 2012
Weather
The Story of Huckleberry Farm
Go Back to where it all started...
In August of 2009 Carl and I visited the small beach town of Manzanita on the North Coast of Oregon where Carl had shared a holiday home for many years. On a whim, we took a slightly different route, heading further south from there to a place where Carl bought flowers at a roadside stand many times in the years before.
Exhibitions & Events
Usually on the Recent Work page you see a selection of my favorite recent paintings and pastels and the work that is still available for sale. For the month of May 2012 you'll only find the pieces that are on exhibit at Waterstone Gallery. The show opens May 2nd. To purchase work you may either contact me or the gallery.
Open House at Huckleberry Farm: ?
There is no way we can have an Open house here at the farm until the studio is completed! Just keep checking in. There will be more postings about the construction progress after it begins in May/June 2012.
Waterstone Gallery, Portland, Oregon:
Portraits
May 2nd through June 3rd, 2012
Showing with Metalsmith Greg Wilbur, Deborah's new oil paintings depicting the inhabitants in and around Coastal Nehalem Valley will be accompanied by short video profiles by Carl Vandervoort. www.waterstonegallery.com
Cannon Beach Arts Association, Cannon Beach, Oregon:
Sitka Center for Art and Ecology/Five Artists
June 28th through July 31st, 2012
This show acknowledges the Sitka Center for Art And Ecology with five artists and their work. Each of them have been associated with Sitka in different but very committed ways over the years. Frank Boyden, Carol Riley, Andie Thrams, Greg Wilbur and me, Deb DeWit
Deborah has been awarded the Jordan Schnitzer
Printmaking Residency, October 2012
at The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology
To learn more about this visit www.sitkacenter.org