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A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Deborah Ponder is an artist member of the Baltimore Watercolor Society and a former faculty member of Goucher College. She also is an associate member of the National Watercolor Society, the Northeast Watercolor Society and the American Watercolor Society.
The artist earned her B.F.A. from the University of Cincinnati, College of Design, Architecture and Art, where she concentrated on drawing, design and oil painting. While pursuing graduate studies in art and art history through Towson University, she lived in Florence, Italy, painted in the Tuscan countryside and turned her artistic focus to the demanding medium of transparent watercolor.
Since that seminal experience, Deborah Ponder has studied watercolor technique at the Maryland Institute College of Art and with nationally known painters in the field. She has returned repeatedly to Italy and has traveled widely, painting en plein air and gathering images for work to be completed at her rural Maryland studio.
The artist says, “I always have an immediate response to my subject and I make notes and sketches and take photos. Sometimes I paint on location, but more often I prefer to complete a painting in my studio. Then I have time to think about my subject away from the source and get to the real essence of what drew me to it. It allows my response to the subject to grow more and more personal as I work through the painting process.”
Work by Deborah Ponder has been seen in group- and one-artist shows, including local, regional and national juried and invitational exhibitions. The artist’s work is included in private collections throughout the U.S.A. and is published exclusively by Wild Apple Graphics.
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