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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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A Song from a Dream and Rousseau’s Painting

July 6, 2025

My dreams have always been enticingly rich and evocative. Often it’s as if I’m watching an elaborate film in gorgeous …

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So Much Happiness – Poem and Painting

March 12, 2023

So Much Happiness by Naomi Shihab Nye For Michael It is difficult to know what to do with so much …

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Fox & Friend, A Painting for My Grandson

December 4, 2022

One of the pleasures of painting is creating something special for loved ones. Both of my grandchildren have a special …

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Painting Again—A Wild and Wooly Seascape

November 20, 2022

It’s been awhile. I traded in my pen for my paintbrush these last few weeks. The new novel I’ve been …

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Secluded Pool, Secret Garden, & Summer Plans Gone Astray

July 7, 2019

I haven’t been painting as much this year, but I thought I’d share these two. Both were meant to be …

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Art that Mirrors the Inner Essence

April 28, 2019

I found this photo on the cover of Sun Magazine some years ago and fell in love with it. It’s …

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2018 – A Look Back, a Look Forward

December 31, 2018

The end of a year always signals a kind of reckoning for me, the urge to look back and assess …

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New Paintings, the Folding Hills of California

November 11, 2018

I’ve long loved the way the rolling hills along the coast of California fold together and overlap, the sensuality of …

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New Paintings, Trees and More Trees

October 21, 2018

Three new paintings, part of my forest series, I suppose, but really just playing with styles and possibilities. All three …

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Painting Again, Forest Series

September 30, 2018

I’ve started painting again, keeping toward the abstract, still experimenting with water-color and oil pastel, letting them show me how …

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After sailing around the world in a small boat for six years, I came to appreciate how tiny and insignificant we humans appear in our natural and untamed surroundings, living always on the edge of the wild, into which we are embedded even while being that thing which sets us apart. Now living again on the edge of the wild in a home that borders a nature preserve, I am re-exploring what it means to be human in a more than human world.

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