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Debra Van Tuinen

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"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” 
— EE CUMMINGS

Debra Van Tuinen
From my first romantic realization that I wanted to be an artist, my life path has been set on a single course. In a career spanning more than forty years, this path continues to evolve in response to my personal landscapes.

These literal and metaphorical landscapes, my desire to create, and the skills I have diligently honed along the way, have combined to shape every aspect of my life, especially my art.

The origins of my creative desire had more to do with the process than the product. As a child, I loved to draw and paint because of how they made me feel. Even today, I find that when I hold fast to this motivation, my work is the most authentic.

Thus I find my new collection to be my most satisfying yet.
“Light Revealed” is the organic evolution of my previous work into a new flowing form. In these pieces, I have opened up my relationship with paint and canvas, allowing myself a greater freedom to explore the movement and the sensual aspects of my work.

It can be a curse to define your true north from such an early age, forsaking other conventional pathways that are more financially sound, but for me it has been a blessing that has nurtured my belief in myself and allowed me to take more risks and cultivate them in my creative process and thereby reflect an undaunted human spirit to all of those who enjoy my work.
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Van Tuinen’s career has spanned 40+ years as a painter, printmaker, teacher and art advocate. Her vision and innovative use of materials has been recognized by private, corporate and public collections throughout the United States, Canada, Asia and Europe. She was invited to the Florence Biennale in 2004 and selected for Art in Embassy 2009-2011 and 2016. Her work was recently published in the 100 Artists of the Northwest and included in the Seattle Art Fair, Miami Basel and NYC Red Dot, Palm Spring International, Affordable Art Fairs in NYC and Miami and Prints Fairs in NYC and Boston.
Her collaborations with Oehme Graphics in Steamboat Springs produced new prints that are a combination of watercolor monotypes and solar etching plates. These complex prints are shown by Oehme Graphic at the Washington DC, Boston, NYC and Minneapolis Print Fairs and by Goodwin Fine Art in Denver, Petley-Jones in Vancouver BC and Butters Gallery in Portland. Steidel Fine Arts in London and Austin will be showing Van Tuinen’s work in 2017. The London gallery will collaborate with her on a show at the Hampstead AFF show in May, 2017.

Museums and Corporate Collections

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Grand Rapids Art Museum
Kansas State University
Paccar Corporation
Art in Embassy 2016 - Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Art in Embassy 2008 - Doha, Qatar
The Village - Vancouver, BC
L' Hermitage  Hotel - Vancouver, BC
US State Department
Imperial Bank of Canada  
Windsor Park Hotel - Taiwan
Nordic Research Group - Vancouver, BC
Intrawest
Keg Restaurant - Vancouver BC, Calgary, Montreal, Austin TX, and Banff, Canada
PHSA - Vancouver, BC
Bonneville Power Administration
Museum of Encaustic Art - Santa Fe, NM
Mitsubishi
Steelcase Corporation
American Art
Westinghouse Corporation
City of Grand Rapids - Grand Rapids, MI
Herman Miller
City of Olympia - Olympia, WA
Tectonics Corporation
Hope College - Holland, MI
Seattle First National Bank - Seattle, WA
Kaiser Medical
Association of Northwest Gas Utilities
Hilton Hotels
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Bank of America
Heritage Bank
Gannet News
Nordstrom
Paccar Corporation
Security Pacific
U.S. West
Burlington Northern
First Federal Bank of Detroit - Detroit, MI
Perkins Coie Law Firm

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