Deborah Bartello
I met Deborah in Charlottesville, VA, in 1995. It was getting close to the time I was to move back to Boston, and I somehow knew Deborah had a painting I was to buy. When I arrived at her home, I was pointed in the direction of her living room. On the floor, laid out in a semi-circle, were over ten pieces of her art work. Looking at only one painting at a time, I moved slowly from one to the next. When I got to the 5th one, tears started streaming down my face. "I am looking at me," I said in a very small voice as she entered the room. Deborah told me that she had painted it some 5 years before, but it never felt right to sell it until now. Below this text is that picture. It has been an inspiration to me all these years and when I was working with Dan to design my web site, I knew it was this one that would be my window.
The Windows of Light Visionary Art Gallery
features the artworks of Deborah Bartello. From her web page: www.deborahandjackbartello.com/abtdeb.html “As more and more people are becoming interested in their spiritual development, visionary art plays an increasingly important role. It acts as both inspiration and teacher, healer and way-shower. Through its movement, color, shapes and symbolic representations, it reminds us…"
Dan Yokum
Dan Yokum has been a graphic designer for nearly ten years and an artist of various sorts for many years prior to that. Dan has painted, sculpted, worked with mosaics, and run a stained and fused glass studio. His graphic design work can be seen at www.yokumdesigns.com.
