2026 Art Demonstrations
October 2026
FALC General Meeting In Quinlan Community Center as well as on Zoom.
Monday, October 12th 2026 7:00 PM - 9 PM
Deborah Shea was born and raised in San Francisco. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and Design at UC Davis, where she studied with Wayne Thiebaud and Roland Peterson. Deb had a career for over 20 years as a creative director, designer, and illustrator (in pastels) before becoming a full-time fine artist in 2018. She has won numerous awards in juried and solo exhibitions for her pastel; one of seven artists for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Exhibition for 2023 CA and recently the Triton Museum Open Exhibition in 2025 and 2026. She is a signature artist in many pastel societies across the United States and has had her work featured in Pastel 100 Annual in 2024, 25 and 26. She conducts pastel workshops and courses for the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, at Filoli, Pacific Art League, Society of West Coast Artists and her studio at Art Bias in San Carlos, California. She resides in Redwood City, California. Deborah feels the beautiful color range of pastels could not be more expressive. Their fluidity and ability to layer is ideal to render all the beauty in floral paintings, still life and landscapes exploring the abstract shapes, finding the path of light, creating transparency and building luminous color. She prefers to work in large scale paintings, drawing the viewer in to experience her art. Deborah also works in large scale murals and was the lead artist for the Centennial Mural in downtown San Carlos, and most recently the “Where Imagination takes Flight” mural at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos.
Deb@DeborahSheaStudios.com | www.DeborahSheaStudios.com | @debdsheastudios
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