Deborah DeWit Marchant at Powell's

Deborah DeWit Marchant, celebrated artist and photographer with two books – Traveling Light: Chasing an Illuminated Life and In the Presence of Books – presents Inspiration: finding the muse through books, art and writing at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, January 28th at Beaverton Powell's, as part of the Oregon Writers Colony Presents series.

Oregon Writers Colony Presents is a series of workshops for and about writers and writing, held the fourth Monday of each month from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. at Powell's Books Cedar Hills Crossing and Beaverton. Authors talk about the craft of writing, nonfiction or fiction. Free and open to the public.

Deborah DeWit Marchant at St. Johns Bookstore

Celebrated Oregon artist and photographer Deborah DeWit Marchant will appear at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, 5 December, at St. Johns Books. She will sign copies of her new book, In the Presence of Books, with introduction and text by PNW poet Kim Stafford.

St. Johns Books is located at 8622 N. Lombard Street in Portland.

Deborah DeWit Marchant at 23rd Avenue Books

Deborah will be signing copies of In the Presence of Books at Twenty-Third Avenue Books on October 4th at 7:30 p.m., during Portland's First Thursday event.

About Twenty-Third Avenue Books
Noted for unique inventory of new fiction, selected classics and mysteries. But there’s plenty else - history, politics, biographies, memoirs, cooking, gardening, travel, science, human potential/psychology and more. Twenty-Third Avenue Books also stocks a large selection of reading glasses, and some of the most creative and artistic gift cards in Portland. Located at 1015 NW 23rd Avenue in Portland, in the Nob Hill district of Northwest Portland across from Good Samaritan Hospital.

Deborah DeWit Marchant at Beach Books in Seaside

Deborah DeWit Marchant will be the featured author during first Saturday Art Walk at Beach Books in Seaside, Oregon on Saturday, October 6 at 7:00 p.m.

Since In the Presence of Books is an artbook, instead of a reading, she will talk on “Inspiration: finding the muse through books, art and writing.” Here's a bit about the talk: Deborah has traveled to remote places around the world for her photography. Yet her artwork and writing gathers people to the most private and universal sanctuary – cozy moments spent with a good book.

“Books were a home for a wayward traveler, a place to rest and find kinship,” says Deborah. “When I no longer traveled as much, books were the stopover, the hovering experience somewhere between far away and home. They represented that ironic human tendency to want both the freedom to explore the unknown and to remain comfortably in the known.”

Beach Books is located at 37 N. Edgewood. This cozy bookstore features mostly new titles, some used.

Launch party for In the Presence of Books at Annie Bloom's

If you're in the Portland area, please join us for the launch party of Deborah DeWit Marchant: In the Presence of Books. The party starts at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 26 at Annie Bloom's Books, located at 7834 SW Capitol Hwy in Portland, OR.

In the Presence of Books celebrates quiet, private, comfortable moments of reading books. Her soft paintings (pastels and oils on canvas and wood) depict books and readers enjoying them in various scenes – grassy knolls, overstuffed armchairs by the fireside, in the car on a roadtrip, etc.

This artbook is full-color, high quality, and contains 55 original paintings and pastels, all of which have sold to private and corporate collections. It features an introduction and texts by prominent PNW poet Kim Stafford, and foreword by Randall Koch (Sitka Center for the Arts and Ecology).

We are told that Kim Stafford will join Deborah at this event.

About Deborah
Deborah DeWit Marchant is a highly collected, self-taught photographer, painter, and writer. She has been exhibiting her work in galleries in the Northwest for over twenty years, and her images have been used on the covers of books, magazines, and in calendars. Her work is housed permanently in the Museum of Art in Nevada and many corporate collections. She lives outside of Portland, Oregon. Deborah’s first book, Traveling Light: Chasing an Illuminated Life, has gone through two printings.


Book info: 112-page illustrated paperback with 55 color plates William, James & Co.
$35.00 U.S.
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ISBN: 978-159028-196-3

New releases!

We're pleased to announce that you can now read out all about our three newest releases on our Web site. We hope you'll enjoy these excellent additions.

Married to my Garden by Barbara Blossom Ashmun
Portraits by Ann Ploeger
In the Presence of Books by Deborah DeWit Marchant