Debra Teare

AMERICAN ART MAGAZINE has called Debra Teare “one of the most successful trompe l’oeil painters today”. Her work has traveled the United States in over thirty museum exhibitions. She has been featured in American Art Collector, Southwest Art, as well as American Artist magazine. In 2007 she exhibited with John Peto and William Harnett, two past masters of the art of trompe l’oeil, at the Vero Beach Museum of Fine Art. Her work is currently on exhibit in “The New Reality: The Frontier of Realism in the 21st Century” with venues in six states. She is a member of the Allied Artists of America and is a founding member of the International Guild of Realism.

She shows in many regional exhibits and has received three merit awards from the Springville Museum of Art in Springville, Utah. In 2008 she won the grand prize in the national competition celebrating the centennial of Zion National Park. In September 2010 she exhibited at the Brandywine River Museum in a group show with 19 of America’s most prominent trompe l’oeil artists. Her painting Textures in Tin and Glass was awarded Best Still Life at the 2011 Sage Creek Gallery exhibit of the International Guild of Realism in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Debra Teare resides in Providence, Utah where she shares a studio with her husband Brad Teare, a painter and woodcut artist. She studied art at Utah State University and is represented by Winstanley-Roark Fine Art in Dennis, Massachusetts, The Atlanta Art Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Principle Gallery in Alexandria,Virginia.

She is painting Washington as a statue in a garden, indicating a heritage left in a place that is still growing.

Here is her Website-http://debrateare.blogspot.com/