About the Artist
She has had one burning desire all her life...
to create with her dogs, friends, and horses by the sea.
Author and artist Debra Marlin has traveled the country with her animals for the past six years. Photographing, painting, filming, and promoting her Yellowdog project the entire way, she offers here her finest show yet...
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Debra has been painting all of her life and began photographing people at the age of fourteen. When she discovered there was a darkroom in the industrial arts section of her high school, she hid in the darkroom at the end of the day and taught herself the art of photography into the night. When the boys' "shop," teacher found out, he punished her by entering her work in the city's graphic arts competition. Debra was the first female ever to enter or win the competition in the city that is most synonymous, around the globe, with photography.
After entering many more fine-art and painting competitions, Debra did a stint at the Maine photographic Workshops. It is there that she met and was mentored by the great Mary Ellen Mark. As a photographer who traveled the world, Mary Ellen often wore ethnographic jewelry that she was given or had collected along the way. It is then that Debra, being so inspired by this jewelry, decided to make a life of creating jewelry with rare and antique beads. She was the first to introduce multiple galleries of rare ethnographic beaded necklaces to mainstream America: a new fashion was born.
Beginning on the beautiful Island of Martha's Vineyard, she then took the concept to other upscale locations such as Copley Place in Boston, The Atrium in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and St. Armands Circle in Sarasota. Debra sold the company in 1994 and has since been successfully photographing the natural world while showing in her own galleries around the country. Her new multi-media luxury books are a project that represents the dreams of a lifetime coming into manifestation.
The only artist since Georgia O'Keefe to be known at the national and international level for fine-art photography and painting, she presents these online portfolios for your perusal. As one of a handful of living author/photographers in the world published by the elegant Bulfinch Press, she is fortunate to be among the greats such as Ansel Adams and Edward Weston.
Debra personally prints, inspects, and approves every fine-art print, and her original acrylics on canvas are shipped only via next day carrier.
Please contact Yellowdog with any questions or to order a piece.
Gallery: (508) 560-2119