Deborah Glasgow

Art has always been a major part of my life. As a child, I would draw strange little creatures which were a combination of a kangaroo and a cat and color them all different colors, Some had dots, others stripes. No two were ever alike. When I was finished with the multicolored creatures, they would all be cut out with my little plastic scissors. I would make little ‘pouches’ taping them to the ‘mother’ and insert tiny kangaroo/cat replicas as their babies. Seems like I did hundreds of these, proudly showing them to my ever patient Mother. For my 5th Birthday, I received a finger painting set, spending hours mixing different colors and painting with my fingers. My dear Mother was a wise woman who took notice of my interest in art and always made sure I had plenty of crayons, paper, colored pencils and water colors available. In school, we were given rulers, protractors, etc. But to me, these were just more tools for art…..to make geometric shapes and perfect circles colored in all different colors (of course!). Needless to say, my math grades were not the best. When I was 15, my Mother enrolled me in private art lessons taught by a wonderful person. Her name was London Bridges, and yes, that was her real name. She was one of the most influential people in my life, Well known in the art circles in Birmingham, Alabama and a great artist in her own right. A happy, bubbly person who lovingly critiqued my work. One day she told my Mother, “Deborah loves color and I simply can’t keep her brush out of the red paint.” Thank you, Mother, for your encouraging words and teaching me everything I know. As you can see, I do love color and still have trouble keeping my brush out of the red paint, which, by the way, is my favorite color.

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