About Deb Malewski

I live in Eaton Rapids, Michigan, known as the

"Island City" as our downtown area is an island

surrounded by the Grand River. I am married to

a wonderful and handsome man, Paul, who is the

Police Chief here. Our daughter, Andrea, is a senior

majoring in Political Science at Western Michigan

University.

We also have two fuzzy children, Pretzel,

a Schnauzer mix, and Taz, a Siamese cat.

I have been painting for about 18 years. It was

something that I picked up when my daughter was

small and my husband was always working, and now

I can't stop painting! Like many others, I started doing craft shows, then home craft shows, and then my own store. From there I started publishing, and my first book, "Oh, Snow" came out in 2001. Since then I have published 3 more books on my own, and 3 others with othe artists, and over 100 pattern packets and several magazine articles. I teach internationally and at local conventions and chapters.

I am the Vice Chairman of our City Planning Commission, the Secretary of our Photography Club, and a member of the Outcast Art Group.

I am a Royal Ambassador with the Royal and Langnickel Brush Company and I am also a Decoart Helping Artist. Both companies help support Chapter seminars, so contact me if you are interested in having me teach at your chapter!

You may have heard about my project to create new ornaments for the Library of Congress in Washington DC in 2005. That project was very successful and we had over 300 new handpainted book-ornaments grace the tree in the Great Hall of the Library of Congress in December, 2005. It was a pleasure for me to organize this project and to see it carried out by so many wonderful artists, and even more exciting to meet many of those artists in Washington!