Deborah Bigeleisen is a contemporary artist whose evocative 
paintings of natural forms encompass so much energy, movement and mystery as to be endlessly engaging.
Using a single image of a flower as her subject, she captures the fleeting effect of natural phenomena and immortalizes the transitory nature of life. With her unique vision, profound sense of color and a glazing technique inherent in the 17th Century Dutch Master Paintings, Deborah’s work elicits a fresh perspective and a deep insight into the familiar.
Always captivated by the colors, patterns and textures in nature Deborah gravitated from her childhood in Los Angeles to New York City for college and her first career in textile design - where prints inspired by nature were the corner stone of the apparel and home furnishings industries. In her eighteen years as the creative force behind her own design company she earned global recognition as one of the pre-eminent design houses for floral prints.
Embarking upon her second career as a fine artist in 1998, Deborah was naturally drawn to using flora as her subject. Now, unencumbered by the technical parameters of commercial design, Deborah had the freedom of unrestricted composition combined with her love for the purity and sensuality of oil paint to explore and express her vision.
Establishing an identity with her Masters Series - an extensive collection of white roses reminiscent of Rembrandt portraits - her practice evolved to contemporary, very large in scale, magnified and dramatic interpretations alive with her atmospheric play of light and shade to her 2010 conceptual, expressive body of work based upon the theories of Chaos and Fractals.
For ten years Deborah’s work has been represented by galleries nationwide including Aspen, CO; Chicago, IL; Lahaina, HI; New Orleans, LA; New York City, NY; and Palm Beach, FL. In November 2009, Deborah’s work was selected by internationally renowned art dealer Bernice Steinbaum for feature in a juried show. Her paintings have been exhibited in numerous museums and extensively published in magazines and books including the 2009 edition of New Art International.