Deborah Hamon paints like she travels...with curiosity as her compass and instinct as her guide. This Australian expatriate captures the restless energy of a life spent collecting moments: sunrise over Uluru, fog rolling through Golden Gate, the particular quality of light that exists only in motion. Her Sausalito studio serves as base camp for a practice that encompasses painting, writing, and the slow, deliberate work of illustrating stories for young dreamers. A UC Davis MFA who learned from masters like Wayne Thiebaud and David Hollowell, Hamon has shown her boundary-pushing work from the Arctic Circle to New Mexico, always returning to the fundamental question: How do we translate the feeling of being truly alive onto canvas?