Deborah Foutch is an artist whose palette, sense of line, light, and space, is deeply informed by the landscape she grew up in.  A native Iowan, she was raised in a creative family that showed her how to look around and see the shape, color and texture of things and appreciate the beauty of nature’s chance combinations.  In art school she went from painter to quilt maker to mixed media fiber artist because the richness of combined materials came closest to the world she wanted to express.  After graduating with degrees in art and history she moved to the Twin Cities in Minnesota to pursue her art career.

            Deborah has shown her work nationally in galleries and festivals for the past 20 years. The discipline of the constant show deadlines combined with the joy of playing with different materials keeps her work fresh and skills evolving. Her current work includes mixed media figure work as well as fiber wall pieces. Those are landscapes constructed with a combination of painting and quilting techniques with mixed media embellishments. Carved clays, both glazed and not, beading, found objects, deconstructed fabrics, and papers are added for their relationship to the piece under construction. The rhythm of seasonal change, the flow of rivers, the roll of land, the grace of trees, and the constant variety of light are recurring subjects, awaked in childhood, expressed with skill from constant practice and observation.

For more information check her website www.deborahfoutch.net