Deborah Randall has been painting and exhibiting for 20 years. Her work has been shown and collected by numerous corporations, museums and private clients including the Portland Museum of Art, Colby College and Georgetown University. She has shown her work in solo and group exhibitions at: College of Southern Maryland, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Sinclair Community College in Ohio, The American Center for Physics in Maryland, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, and The Painting Center in New York City, America Haus in Cologne and Camberwell College of Art in London.   

         Randall grew up in Washington D.C., then moved with her family to California as a teenager.  After earning her B.F.A. from California College of the Arts, she went on to earn her M.F.A. at Savannah College of Art And Design.  She has lived and taught all over the Northeast before coming to Maine to teach at Colby College in 1999.  She knew then that Maine would become her home and the landscape of Maine her passion.  After working on renovating a beautiful old farmhouse in New Gloucester, she finally settled in Kennebunkport.  Her latest endeavor is Deborah Randall, Fine Art at the Union Square Shops.  It will serve as a retail space and studio and will feature her landscapes of Kennebunkport and the surrounding areas.  All the work in the gallery is original art.

ARTIST STATEMENT

       I am fortunate to live in a part of the country that is so picturesque, and I am constantly aware of the natural beauty of Maine when I step out my door every morning.  The Maine coast and the tidal marshes nearby inspire the landscapes in this gallery.  Rather than painting an exact reproduction of what I see, I hope to evoke the feeling of being present in the landscape by communicating the quality of light and color, the feel of the breeze and vastness of space.  When I can’t be outside, I often work from memory and intuition to convey atmospheric perspective and timelessness in nature.

       I have no preconceived notions of the final product and often begin an image with one idea and color palette and end with an entirely different one. A painting can be a record of a certain period that grows out of the process of searching and questioning, obscuring, and revealing. With subsequent layers exposed, then covered, the passage of time becomes evident in the work.  An effort is made at finding the truth by developing the places in a painting that are authentic.

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