Deb Moyer Art

About the Artist

Deb Fetterman Moyer

Studio 8B at 25 Arts Center Ln, Avon, CT 06001

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Deb Moyer is an oil painter and piano teacher from West Hartford, CT who maintains an art studio and gallery at the Farmington Valley Arts Center in Avon. Her vibrant paintings of flowers, animals and landscapes capture the essence of the natural world, giving expression to the spiritual unity of all things.

Deb enjoys teaching mindful creativity workshops and leading retreats using the arts of meditation, painting, photography, poetry, floral design and music. She also works as a piano teacher in her home music studio in west Hartford.

For the past twenty years, Deb has been dedicated to her calling as a mother of two boys. She and her family live in West Hartford, CT next to a nature preserve. They also own a pharmaceutical contract laboratory, Pine Lakes Laboratory in Bristol, CT. She enjoys gardening, traveling, taking adventures with their two dogs, birding, hiking, swimming and skiing in her free time. Deb practices Pilates and mindfulness.

In her early career, Deb was an award-winning newspaper editor and broadcast journalist working in Mexico City, Pennsylvania, Idaho and Washington, DC. Later she served as an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, leading two congregations as senior minister, then serving as an interim pastor in eastern Pennsylvania and Connecticut.

She began oil painting in 2008, and has studied art at the West Hartford Art League with Brian Colbath, Paul Batch, and the late Deb Wadsworth with whom she shared a studio in Simsbury. She has participated in multiple juried art shows and galleries in the greater Hartford area. She also displayed her art at Princeton Seminary during a women’s clergy conference.

Debbie Fetterman Moyer grew up in Boyertown, Pennsylvania and currently lives in West Hartford, CT. Her education includes a B.A. in English from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA. and a Master’s of Divinity from Lancaster Theological Seminary in Lancaster, PA. She has a certificate in Gestalt Pastoral Care and spiritual direction. She also has a certificate from the Women’s Leadership Institute at the former Hartford Theological Seminary.