Name/Title
Debbie Solomon - Hidden Waters - The CarlisleDescription
“I like paintings landscapes, fishes, things under the sea, in the air. Wherever I want to go, I go”, says Deborah Solomon, affectionately known as Debs. Born in New York City in 1954, Debs survived a traumatic head injury when she was 11. During a long and difficult rehab-ilitation to relearn how to speak, New York’s renowned museums became a surrogate for school, which led to a lasting love of art. In 1982, Debs began studying painting at the National Academy of Arts in Manhattan. “You’ll always see what you’re doing if you go on and paint naturally, don’t hold back. Your hand knows more than you do. I might think my hand and my mind don’t agree. Well, we do agree!” she laughs. Debs was the longest-serving volunteer at the Central Park Conservancy, where she weeded and pruned for 25 years until she and her father moved to San Francisco three and a half years ago. As an adult, she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. “I was sad, I thought I couldn’t do it, but then I thought, ‘I will do it again,’ and slowly and surely I did. Always think of hope and go on.”
