Debby Kaspari explores the natural world by sketching on location and creating paintings of birds, animals and plants in acrylic and pastel. Her work has been shown nationally at the Oakland Museum, CA, the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, CA, the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum, WI, New York State Museum, NY and the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, OK. Kaspari's work has been published by Audubon Society, Sierra Club, and Bird Watcher's Digest. Kaspari was born in 1957 in Oakland, CA. Her fascination with nature and birds began with long hikes in the East Bay hills. Graduation from California College of Arts and Crafts in 1981 was followed by a freelance career as an illustrator and designer, combined with gallery sales as she began painting birds. On a trip to Trinidad and Tobago she fell in love with the colorful birds and exotic imagery of tropics. This led to more Central American travel; in 2005 she hiked the trails and sketched the rainforest for a month on Panama's Barro Colorado Island. This inspired a body of work scheduled to go on exhibit at the Oklahoma State Capitol in 2006 and the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History in 2008. Debby Kaspari moved to Norman, Oklahoma in 1995 and lives on ten acres with her husband, a tropical biologist and OU Professor. She works in her studio with its view of the surrounding oak woodlands and of the birds and plants that fill her paintings.