About Deborah:

Deborah E. Blackman Jacobs is an impressionist/ representation painter who has successfully transitioned into abstract art very recently. Her work may be characterized as visual interpretations of people and the environment. Her paintings have been rendered in oil paint, acrylics, water color, encaustic, gauche and mixed media. Her work reflects people of Cape Cod, a place that she lives and loves, landscapes and seascapes of the Cape. These are rendered in vibrant and stimulating formats. Paintings are presented in a variety of styles, diversity of moods and color that the environment and light encourages her to express in her work.

Deborah E. Blackman Jacobs has been painting for the last twenty five years. In addition to her work and advanced degree from Boston University earned prior to entering into the art world, she has attended Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Newton Arts Center, Chatham Creative Art Center and Cape Cod Art Association. She has taken many advanced workshops in a variety of settings working in various mediums. The following is a list of some of the illustrious and accomplished instructors with whom she has studied (in alphabetical order): Alvara Castagnet, Robert Douglas Hunter, Ruth Kates, Robert Mesrop, Rosalie Nadeau, Jim Peters, Charles Sovek.

Artist Statement:

“I want my work to be exciting and original and encourage the viewer to experience the emotions that I feel as I paint. I love working with vibrant colors which express the joy that I experience as I am painting. I love various mediums, and I know that I can do a particular painting with oil rather than acrylic because that is what I feel. Some subjects “speak to me” and tell me that they should be rendered in oil paint or acrylic or water color for example. When I am working on a portrait, it is as if the painting has become part of my being. Although the model may not be physically present and I am working from a photo, I feel the presence of the individual who coming to life on the canvas.”

Deborah has accepted selective art commissions.

Memberships:

Deborah has been a member of numerous professional organizations including Cape Cod Art Association – Juried Member,Morning Muse Professionals, Cotuiit Arts Center, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, Chatham Creative Arts Center Cape Cod Museum of Art, Newton Art Association.