Debra Woodward has been a painting and drawing student of Adeline Goldminc-Tronzo in Eliot, Maine since March 2021. She is immediate past Board Vice President at the Seacoast Artist Association where she served as publicist. She also instituted and organized their music program for the Second Friday receptions. An exhibiting member for several years, her favorite accomplishments here are having the honor of organizing the 90th Birthday Retrospective for the amazing watercolorist Bill Childs in 2024 and launching the SAA Pentimento Art Scholarship for a senior artist aged 65 and older.
With a passion for taking photographs since childhood, Debra studied photography for six years with Robert Chiller of West Newbury, MA. In 2017, she began studying oil painting with Amesbury (MA) oil painter Bob Richardson. Debra has since taken classes with Amy Brnger, Tom Glover, Lisa Regopoulos, Sue Spellman, and Colley Whisson.
Debra has been a juried member of the NH Art Association in Portsmouth, NH, since 2012 and previously served on their Board of Directors. She has been accepted into their Lassonde Open Juried Exhibitions several times as well as the annual Joan L. Dunfey Memorial Juried Exhibitions. In 2017, her photograph “Escargot” won Honorable Mention. In 2023 all three of her photographs were accepted into their juried Parfit exhibition. In summers she shows her paintings and photos in the NHAA tent at the League of NH Craftsmen Fair in Sunapee and at the Sheafe Warehouse in Portsmouth.
Debra has been accepted into several juried exhibits at the Newburyport (MA) Art Association and shows at Lowell’s Boat House Holiday Open House in Amesbury, MA each December. The Aplomb Project Gallery in Dover featured her oil painting “Mennonite Girls at Cape Elizabeth” in their juried show, “Challenge the Norm.”
The Portsmouth Historical Society accepted two paintings of hers into their 2024 juried show “Matter of Memory”: “1969 Bug or Memories of Cafe Petronella” and a painting based on a scene at the Candlelight Stroll at Strawbery Banke, “Mrs. Shapiro Makes the Hannukah Latkes.” The latter then won third prize at the Seacoast Artist Association’s Annual Members Awards show later that year.
Most recently, Debra’s photograph “Galaxy” was accepted into the juried show “Cosmic Things” at the George Marshall Gallery in York, ME showing June-July 2025.
A NH native, Debra studied music at UNH. She worked in the book business for 40 years, including seven as book buyer for Barnes and Noble in New York City. Her passions include music, books, art, and animals, and she is a proud liberal. She lives in Seacoast NH with her husband of 37 years, Terry Dostie, and three fabulous felines, Maybeline, Kiké, and Jasper.
Email: WoodwardDA@aol dot com
Website: debrawoodward.com
Social: dwoodwardart.bsky.social
Media: Oil Painting, Photography
