Deb Baillieul

Deb Baillieul grew up in eastern Massachusetts, living in a 300 yr old farm house on many acres of woods, fields and swaps.  Her mother was an avid gardener, horticulturalist and floral design.  It was from her that Deb learned the basics of good design.  Summers on Cape Cod allowed Deb to explore freely the natural world including the shoreline and cranberry bogs.  

She studied textiles and clothing at the University of

Massachusetts and developed an appreciation of styles, art

principles, especialy line color texture and design. After a few

years of marrying and living in Botswana, Deb began experimenting with visual art. In

Pittsburgh she added weaving. But it was in Columbus that she began to

really explore her art making, first with 10 years of color pencil

instruction, then for the last 24 years, Deb discovered art qults

taking dying, printing, and compostion classes with The Quilt Surface

Design Symposium. As for painting, the Columbus Cultural Arts Center

has given her great instrutors in painting and surface design for

20 years. Her fiber studio is in her home in Columbus, Ohio, with a dye studio in the

basement, and weaving room upstairs. She finds time and space to

create daily!

Juried Exhibitions:

NAACCM- Art of Soul

Ohio State Fair FIne Arts Division

Best of..., Ohio Craft Museum

Bryn Du Annual Art exhibition, Granville, Ohio

McConnell Art Center, Worthington, Ohio

Concourse Gallery, Upper Arlington Municipal Building, Ohio

High Road Gallery, Worthington, Ohio

Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Main Gallery and Loft Gallery

Many other nonjuried exhibitions. 

DEB BAILLIEUL, artist

I grew up in New England surrounded by woods, fields, streams, swamps,

and the Atlantic Ocean. While wandering these spaces, I searched for

small bits: pine cones, tiny shells, bits of skunk cabbage, minnows,

locust pods, earth worms, and cranberries. I often watched changing

land, both natural and human made-a new development being staked into

my woods! After college, I traveled, lived in New York City,

Botswana, and Pittsburg, landing in Ohio. Living in different parts

of the world, I began to really appreciate the variety of nature,

including people and cultures. This all influences my concern for

the state of the world today.  We need to PAY ATTENTION!

Currently, I am appalled by the way history is not taught, books are not read,

the earth is ignored, and people are not honored! My art focuses on

humanity and environment. In this exhibit, I use the inspiration of

experiences in Botswana, Belize and Columbus, Ohio, refreshed often

with my photos, fabrics I have collected, as well as beads and

cultural symbols. These remnants from my experiences, traces of

memory, and my 30 years as a teacher, give me the message, voice and

purpose for my art.

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United States