From an early age I have always loved art. Growing up, I was influenced by my father David Crow, an award-winning and brilliant water-colourist. My parents encouraged my love of art and I am forever grateful.

As a child I loved to paint and illustrate, and was often found in the art room during high school with my teacher Mary Lou Hiller, a respected artist in the Kitchener-Waterloo area. Art was the only class I excelled at!

Upon graduating from the Illustration and Design program at Sheridan College in 1983, I pursued a career as a freelance illustrator, and also worked at local advertising agencies until I met my husband and business partner Ron Repke. In 1987, we opened Eyelight Inc. and grew the agency to one of the leading design and marketing firms in Waterloo. In 2017, after 30 years in business, I retired from the marketing world and returned to my passion for painting.

Over the past few years, I have studied with Laurie Wonfor Nolan and enjoyed meeting several artists in a collective studio environment. I love exploring with my art. I enjoy painting scenes from my everyday life and adventures, and am especially drawn to the landscapes in the Bruce Peninsula. I equally enjoy painting urban cityscape scenes and incorporating figures.

I am fascinated by the effect of light and shadow and the relationship they have on colour, tone and value. It's a constant challenge to capture in paint the dynamics of energy and mood.  There is so much in the world that intrigues and inspires me as an artist!

Debbie Crow-Repke

Exhibits

2023
Deep Water Gallery, Experiment/ALL: March 10-April 27
Homer Watson House and Gallery, ‘Artists at Work’: February 3-28
Winner of Jurors’ Choice Award
Deep Water Gallery, Holiday Artists’ Co-op Shop: November 23 - December 23
Loft Gallery, Thornbury: Square Foot Show November 4 - December 31
Chapel Gallery: Bricolage (Paintings, Drawings, Collage and Sculptures), Chapel Studio, Roseville - Sept 22 - Nov 11
Bruce Peninsula Society of Artist Studio Tour: August 26, 27 2023, 10am-5pm
Southampton Museum, ‘Escarpment Roots’: The Land, The People, The Story - June 9 - September 2
Deep Water Gallery: ‘Wood/Land’, Wiarton ON - February 16 - March 31

2022
Paula White Diamond Gallery: ‘Big Ideas’, Waterloo ON
Paula White Diamond ‘Square Foot: Waterloo ON
ArtsPay, Kitchener, ON
Chapel Gallery, Roseville ON

2020
Chapel Gallery ‘Nine Alone’, Roseville, ON