Texas-based artist Deborah Paris is an American landscape artist whose work reflects an intense, intuitive connection to the natural world and its rhythms. Paris first earned her BFA in Art History and Studio Art, followed by a law degree and career as a practicing lawyer. Ultimately, Paris pursued her desire to return to the arts, receiving a thorough grounding in naturalist landscape painting from a number of contemporary landscape painters, most notably artists Ned Jacob and Hollis Williford (1994-2001).Based on a foundation of intense observation, drawing, memory and imagination, as well as indirect painting techniques, Deborah Paris produces luminous works full of mystery and mood. The artist is considered to be a “kindred spirit with the likes of Hudson River School painters Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, and Albert Bierstadt” (Southwest Art, 2014). She is known to immerse herself in old growth forests and wild lands to record the changes of the season and convey the lifecycle of a place.The landscapes of Deborah Paris have been featured in Art of the West, American Painting Video Magazine, American Artist, Southwest Art, The Pastel Journal, Professional Artist Magazine, Deborah Paris: Lennox Woods – The Ancient Forest, Landscapes of New Mexico, Texas Traditions, and Plein Air New Mexico. Her work has been nationally exhibited, including at the Laguna Art Museum, the Albuquerque Museum, the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, the National Museum of Wildlife Art, and the Gilcrease Museum. In 2004, she was named an “Artist to Watch” by Southwest Art magazine. She teaches and writes through her studio The Landscape Atelier, and is a signature member of the Outdoor Painters Society, Plein Air Florida, and a founding member of Plein Air Painters of New Mexico. Her book, Painting the Woods, will be published by Texas A&M University Press in Fall 2020.When she isn’t painting or teaching, Deborah is an avid walker, birder, naturalist, reader and writer. She lives and works in northeast Texas with her husband, two dogs and two cats.