Artist's Biography

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D M Bass is an author-artist creating fine art and artful fiction in CO. Her fine art, expressed through oil painting, explores her subjects in many ways and styles. She has a fondness for painting colorful fruits and vegetables, houses and plants rooted in time or season, and collections of household items. She employs cakes to tell stories. Current themes in her still life work use plastics and embroidery-like embellishment to represent aspects of globalism.  She holds a degree in architecture and a minor in English with a concentration in deconstructionist poetry from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She holds an MBA from CU Denver. Her art education comes from studying and practicing architecture alongside a lifelong passion for drawing and painting. She's a regular participant in the contemporary artist Rob Gratiot's "Developing Your Own Style..." classes at the Arts Students League of Denver. Her past artwork can be found in homes in Virginia, Washington DC, Florida, Texas, and Colorado. She has exhibited at The Cambridge Center for Adult Education in Cambridge, MA, The French Press in Denver, CO, The Colorado Symphony Guild Shop at the Boettcher Hall in Denver CO, The 2025 Gilpin Arts Annual Juried Show, and in her own home. 

My art work is inspired by what I see and touch directly. Favorite subjects are beautiful interplays of color and form that tell a story.  I enjoy the juxtaposition of the living and the inanimate and subjects with different histories. Lemons in China cups and houses from different centuries are examples. I seek to capture the life each represents, their light. My compositions are drawn or blocked onto my canvases in traditional ways. The process thereafter describes tones, emphasizes relationships, and defines edges. Though out it, I work to see my subjects better and improve my painting skills. When I've expressed a scene in a way that's meaningful to me, I sign my name. 

I hope you find inspiration in my paintings!  D M Bass