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Artist's Statement~
  I am a native Charlestonian, was born and have spent most of my life in
the Lowcountry of South Carolina. Like most other artists, I have drawn,
painted, and shaped with anything that was at hand as far back as I can
remember. In my formal education, I studied Classics--Latin and Greek,
ancient history , architecture and art. I graduated from the College of
Charleston and did the MA program at the University of Georgia, with
postgraduate studies at Johns Hopkins and Columbia Universities. My art
lessons were from some of the finest local artists, in my younger years.

  By the time I chose to return to my native talent, I had forgotten most of
what I had been taught by anybody, and am presently working on what
comes naturally now that I am closing in on my second childhood.

  Around 1990, I began painting the historic buildings and scenes of my
native city, and in the years since I began full time pursuit of this as my
livelihood, my work has become more interpretive, expressionistic and
imaginative--the way one would hope an artistic vocation would develop.

Scenes and influences of my own history are inserting themselves into my
work, and this pull of my past is taking me back to places of my past, both
figuratively and literally. As a child, I spent happy childhood times around
San Diego in the 1950's, and I am headed there to artistically explore today's
Southwest. "Go west, old lady, go west!"

Dr. LeSeigneur House, 38 Church St.,
1819

Charles Elliott House,
43 Legare St., 1759

Doorway on Tradd St.

George Chisolm House, 39 East Bay St., ca.1810

Moultrie-Glen House,
37 Legare St. 1818

I have prints available,
matted or unmatted, to
fit standard size frames
5x7, 8x10, 11x14. For
other sizes, let me know
your wishes. Prints are
done with archival inks
and papers, guaranteed
for generations, better
than offset lithographs by
far.

The Governor's House Inn,
Laurens-Rutledge House, 117 Broad
Street, 1760

Prices are:
Matted 5x7 -- $10.00       Unmatted 5x7------$8.00
Matted 8x10- $20.00        Unmatted 8x10---$15.00
Matted 11x14-$30.00        Unmatted 11x14-$25.00

-All plus shipping charges-

Contact me By phone at 843 327 5947 or
By email at debereves@yahoo.com or
By mail:
Deborah Reeves                   P.O. Box 21071       Charleston, SC 29413

Boone Hall Plantation Mansion

Morris Island Light, 1880's

The Three Sisters, Meeting St.,
1700's

High Battery, Night View

Rainbow Row, The Holy City, Charleston, SC

Joggling Board on Church Street,
late 18th century single house

Pineapple Gates, Simmons-Edwards House,
14 Legare St., ca. 1800

William Holmes House, 20 Church St., 1809

Magnolia Plantation Gardens Mansion

Nathaniel Russell House,
51 Meeting St., 1808