Debra Scoggin-Myers

“My golden retriever Mac passed away and I did tons of paintings about him. It was almost like therapy,” Deborah remembers.

Living on farmland with cattle, Deborah recalls the day Mac wouldn’t settle down. He led her straight to a mama cow lying on its side. “If bloated, they can’t get up,” she explained. “All the other cows were in a perfect semicircle mooing for her to get up. They protect each other and have a maternal instinct. I never tire of painting them. That day my husband had to get the tractor to raise her. If Mac hadn’t found her, by morning she would have been dead.”

Anyone looking at Deborah’s images of cows immediately sees the warmth and love flowing between these gentle creatures and Deborah’s passion to paint them. She paints what she loves, often capturing her furry “pawed and clawed” friends nestling into each other. Her palette is filled with dogs, cats, warm colors, farm fields, meadow paths… and cows.