Deborah Simms
Guild Member Salon Show
”View from my Bike,” Acrylic on canvas, 2020, 36 x 48 in, $1250. This image is from both a memory and photo. I was so grateful to be outside in good weather into the autumn of 2020 and I took every opportunity to walk or bike the trails of West Michigan.
Deborah Simms ABOUT: My name is Deborah Simms, and I currently live on a lake in Fenton, Michigan. My surroundings inspire me daily, as well as family and travel. I taught art for 15 years, and before teaching, I was an illustrator drawing elevation drawings for a furniture store, graphics, and interior design. My work is usually done on a large stretched canvas. I love to use bold color, shapes, and contrast, oftentimes morphing two different locations together in one image. My work is in several galleries, and one of my paintings was used as the cover image for the Flint Institute of Art ’s class catalogue. THIS YEAR: My favorite thing I learned in the studio this year is if you look for it, good can come out of bad. So having spent my second winter in isolation (two years ago I had Mono, recovered, and then broke my elbow), it has taught me to see time indoors as an avenue to create. Painting saved my sanity. GALLERIES: Cause and Affect Gallery, Fenton, MI; Flint Institute of Art, Flint, MI; Crooked Tree Art Center, Petoskey, MI; Las Lagunas Art Gallery, Las Lagunas, CA
“Napa Bordeaux,” Acrylic on canvas, 2020, 36 x 48 in, $1250. This painting was inspired by two different travels, one to the vineyards in Napa, CA and the other to Bordeaux, France. During one of the vineyard tours in France, we were told that roses were planted at the ends of the grape rows as an ancient form of pest control, if insects were going to attack they would go to the roses first, and the roses served as an early warning sign to protect the grapes. It struck me that such a beautiful flower was used as a shield, and so I super-sized them in the foreground of the image.
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