Deborah's profile
Deborah was born in Baltimore. She graduated from the Maryland Institute, College of Art, in 1970, with a diploma in Graphic Design. She studied basic painting as part of the freshman foundation but never pursued it.
After a forty-year hiatus, she returned to painting and has continued her practice for the last fourteen years. To strengthen her skills as an emerging artist, she studied oil painting at Anne Arundel Community College for 5 years, studying with Leonard Koscianski, Richard Niewerth, and Lillian Bayley Hoover.
She continues studies with Anthony Waichulis at Ani Art Academy in Wilkes-Barre, PA.
She has received two first place awards in shows at the Maryland Federation of Art in Annapolis, MD as well as the Caruso Award for Still Life. In 2013 and again in 2014 she won first place at the University of Maryland Medical Center show, which is associated with the National Arts Program. She took first place at the 2013 All AACo show at Quiet Waters Park, beating out two of the teachers at Anne Arundel Community College.
She has shown also at BWI Airport, University of Maryland Medical Center, Anne Arundel Medical Center, Lowe House, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, California, Lovett's Gallery, Tulsa, OK, and other venues.
In May of 2015, she was asked to join the McBride Gallery in Annapolis, Maryland. She was the featured artist at Art Walk Annapolis for McBride and was given her first solo show there in August of 2015.
A copy of one of Deborah's paintings hangs in the permanent collection of works at BWI airport. Her painting "Pens and Pencils" which is originally 11" x 14", has been enlarged to nearly eight feet square and hangs in Gallery D, between the D and E terminals.
Town Park Ltd. has a piece in their corporate collection.
Deborah has been a kiltmaker in the Baltimore, Washington, and Pennsylvania area for 46 years. Most of her work has been for individuals and she has outfitted two local pipe bands. Over her long career she has completed over 800 different Scottish related tailoring projects. Many of the kilts you see in local parades are her work.
Please visit her website: www.deborahkommalan.com
After a forty-year hiatus, she returned to painting and has continued her practice for the last fourteen years. To strengthen her skills as an emerging artist, she studied oil painting at Anne Arundel Community College for 5 years, studying with Leonard Koscianski, Richard Niewerth, and Lillian Bayley Hoover.
She continues studies with Anthony Waichulis at Ani Art Academy in Wilkes-Barre, PA.
She has received two first place awards in shows at the Maryland Federation of Art in Annapolis, MD as well as the Caruso Award for Still Life. In 2013 and again in 2014 she won first place at the University of Maryland Medical Center show, which is associated with the National Arts Program. She took first place at the 2013 All AACo show at Quiet Waters Park, beating out two of the teachers at Anne Arundel Community College.
She has shown also at BWI Airport, University of Maryland Medical Center, Anne Arundel Medical Center, Lowe House, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, California, Lovett's Gallery, Tulsa, OK, and other venues.
In May of 2015, she was asked to join the McBride Gallery in Annapolis, Maryland. She was the featured artist at Art Walk Annapolis for McBride and was given her first solo show there in August of 2015.
A copy of one of Deborah's paintings hangs in the permanent collection of works at BWI airport. Her painting "Pens and Pencils" which is originally 11" x 14", has been enlarged to nearly eight feet square and hangs in Gallery D, between the D and E terminals.
Town Park Ltd. has a piece in their corporate collection.
Deborah has been a kiltmaker in the Baltimore, Washington, and Pennsylvania area for 46 years. Most of her work has been for individuals and she has outfitted two local pipe bands. Over her long career she has completed over 800 different Scottish related tailoring projects. Many of the kilts you see in local parades are her work.
Please visit her website: www.deborahkommalan.com
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