Deborah Berniklau Biography scroll down to view works

Deborah Berniklau hailsfrom New Mexico and is a Western girl through and through. She graduated with a BFA in illustration from the prestigious Art Center College of Design in Pasadena California. She worked as an illustrator painting commissions for Disney, Warner Brothers, NASA/JPL and several advertising agencies throughout the U.S. She has studied with Master artists, Burne Hogarth, Huihan Liu, Carolyn Anderson, Daniel Gerhartz, and Jeffrey Watts. Berniklau's style combines storytelling with character and emotion in order to capture the essence of the America’s West yesteryear and today. Berniklau uses her Andalusian horse, Cowboy and Native American Models, for accurate representations that breathe life into her paintings. “I love the vast landscapes and colorful characters of the west and the powerful images that human emotion can deliver in a painting”, says Berniklau. “Moving to Montana, I’m blessed to have that great landscape right outside my backdoor.” Berniklau has been published in editorials and features in Western Art and Architecture , Southwest Art and Western Art Collector magazines. She won the gold medal for Oil Painters of America Western Regional Exhibition in 2009. Berniklau's work has been exhibited and collected throughout the World. Berniklau is represented at the West Lives On Gallery in Jackson Hole WY. She currently lives in Kalispell, Montana.