I have always been interested in combining my psychological sensibility with art expression. I happened upon this combination with my house collages. In these works, the simple form of a house, as typically drawn by a child, came to represent a person’s soul or psyche. Using this as my prototype, I began to expand this image to express the uniqueness of someone’s dreams, fantasies, and secret wishes. I love the idea of visiting a secret world where faeries converse, magic wands exist, and my Persian cat becomes my dance partner for an afternoon in the shade of magic trees that stroll around at night. Since I’m unable to travel to this special place, I am free to create these images on canvas or other interesting surfaces in order to share my visions of an alternative world with others.

Dr. Deborah Boelter received her doctorate in Psychology in 1989 from the Texas Woman’s University and has been a practicing therapist since 1985. She has a private practice where she sees a variety of clients. Primarily, Deborah specializes in women’s issues including body image and eating disorders. In addition to practicing psychology she has been painting and creating other works of art for ten years. She lives and paints in a wonderful old house in Dallas, Texas.