About Deb Haugen….

I have been painting since I can remember, crayons on napkins to keep me busy.  I went to Art Center right out of high school, I thought it would be perfect for me. The only problem was that my drawing teacher kept coming by and snapping my pencils in half because they weren’t sharpened correctly…..I left.  I was a part of the revolution of the 60′s, yes I’m still a happy hippy. Those were the best and worst of times. Consciousness was opened, but friends died. Freedom was at an all time high, but the war in Vietnam raged on. Peace and Love was the mantra, and the Beatles met the Maharishi. Osho began giving sannyas in India, and the world flowered. Gone was the perfection of the American dream of the 1950′s, Jimi Hendrix owned a guitar, and women now had “the pill”.  Things changed.

I then found Otis Art Institute, hippies, artists,  and savants and fit right in. It was an incredible time, and I grew tremendously as a painter then. I took off for Europe, cried in front of “David”, got arrested on an Italian train for counterfeit money ( really hilarious ), and worked in a hotel in Athens and Amsterdam. I hitchhiked through the Swiss Alps, and was stranded on a Greek Island 14 miles off the coast of Turkey. Those years shaped two of my grandest life passions…art and travel. I came home eventually, and fell in love.

I studied airbrush realism with Jack Reilly, Jack taught me how to be sensitive to color and really see, and I eventually took over the studio, and the students. I learned a lot from them, I taught special effects painters, model makers, fabric designers, they all left a valuable impression on me. I then worked as on set artist in the art dept. of a few independent feature films. I truly love paint, the smell, feel, texture and surprises, I could not live without creating my art works.

Currently I live and paint daily in Malibu, Ca. When I work big I like to paint in my driveway surrounded by 50 foot trees….it’s Nirvana. I am continuously inspired, and in awe of my paradise. Walking the creek beds and horse trails behind my home inspired my current ”Organic Art” series. People call me ” The Organic Artist”, because of the feel of my work. I’m infatuated by the forms, colors, and textures of hidden worlds. My “organic series” are reflections of the often strikingly familiar abstractions we see in nature, and their relationship with time and layering. I convey the softly yielding, yet erratic natural contortions I see, with the serene, conscious, and reactive response nature provides us. Macro worlds tucked just below the surface, interplay when multi-layered to create an amazing environmental dance. Nature provides us a visual history with sensuous forms, decay, and birth in a constant evolution of imagery tangled with time. I am inspired by a momentary glimpse of our evolving earth.

My work is in private collections in the US, Europe, and Japan. Please contact me with any questions or comments, or for large commissioned pieces. I work well with designers, time and or price constraints. There is no job too big or too small. Designers please contact me directly with inquiries.

****For TV, Film production,  Art Directors and Production Designers may purchase and/or rent my artwork at Art Pic L.A.

Contact me directly at …..debnbu@aol.com

J’ai des diamants dans ma poche!

(I have diamonds in my pockets)

Luvs, Deb

In Exhibition and Collections…..

Bank of America     *    Paradise Cove     *      Organics Nutrition Center      *    Coif   Salon

Washington Mutual    *     Malibu Arts Festival    *   Frederick Weisman Museum

Wildflower     *     Altea, Spain     *      Bad Kissigen, Germany    *      Roberts Art Gallery

Tops Gallery    *    Bobi Leonard Design studio     *      Kailua, Oahu       *     Sony, Japan corporate

CBS television     *      Film/”Faith of our Fathers”       *     Film/”Ed and his Dead Mother”

NBC television      *       Anheuser Busch commercial     *    TV-Parenthood    *    TV- CSI- Miami

TV-The New Adventures of Old Christine        *     TV- Parks and Recreation

Andrew Lloyd Webers “Bombay Dreams” on Broadway