Deborah Paris is an American landscape painter and author. Her moody, tonal paintings reflect an intense, intuitive connection to the natural world and its rhythms. Using close observation, field drawings, and her memory, Paris crafts works in the studio that are luminous, full of mystery, and layered in meaning and paint. The artist builds up her paintings using an indirect technique that requires many layers of transparent, translucent, and opaque paint.

Paris has been featured in Art of the West, American Artist, Southwest Art, The Pastel Journal, Professional Artist Magazine, and American Painting Video Magazine. Her work has been shown at the Laguna Art Museum, the Albuquerque Museum, the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, The National Museum of Wildlife Art, and the Gilcrease Museum.

She is the founder of The Landscape Atelier, her teaching studio. Her book Painting the Woods: Nature, Memory, and Metaphor was published by Texas A&M University Press in 2020.

When she isn’t painting or teaching, Paris is an avid walker, birder, naturalist, reader, and writer. She lives and works in northeast Texas with her husband Steve, their Labrador Norman, and two studio cats Luna and Helen.

Paris is represented by Ann Korologos Gallery (Basalt, CO), Hildt Galleries (Chicago), Ella Walton Richardson Fine Art (Charleston, SC), and Davis & Blevins Gallery (Saint Jo, TX).