We’re looking forward to introducing you to Deb Kreimborg. Check out our conversation below.
Hi Deb, thank you so much for joining us today. We’re thrilled to learn more about your journey, values and what you are currently working on. Let’s start with an ice breaker: What makes you lose track of time—and find yourself again?
I have a hidey hole that is actually my office. It is where I go when life kinda slaps you around and you feel the train coming down the track. I can sit in front of my computer and play in photoshop and get lost for hours letting the time slip away engaging my senses and tap into a calming means of self expression. The curious part is when the artwork I create expresses the emotion I was feeling and the best part is when my husband says…”where did that come from?”
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
“When I was young, I thought about my future without seeing the me I became.”
I have worn many hats in my lifetime…athlete, College graduate, High School and College Gymnastics Coach, wife, mother, racketball pro, business owner, grandmother, cancer advocate for women going through cancer, and volunteer for visual art organizations. Picking up a camera in 1984 has become my life long passion.
Ten years ago, I closed my photography business and started entering art shows. This has been a time of a creative explosion where my thought process is no longer linear and everything is planned. Instead, I start with a photographic image and let my imagination take me far beyond what I started with.
Being a project queen, I have created many portfolio’s. Portfolio’s include, Love Letters, The Bathroom Project, Backroads, Scents of Faith, Dead Tree Project, Night Fall, and I am currently working on a Nostalgia Portfolio intrigued by printing them on a Japanese kitakata paper to make them look like an image you find in old children’s historical books.
With each project is the chance to continue to learn, to grow!!
Okay, so here’s a deep one: What’s a moment that really shaped how you see the world?
My world was turned upside down, the day I was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer when I was 60. For two weeks I was a complete mess, anxiety driven to the max!! And then after weeks of testing and labs, my doctor laid all the facts on the table as I started my walk towards healing. I will never forget what my Mom said…”Why You??” I stated “Why Not Me?!!” I realized it was all out of my hands as I was in treatment for 13 months. During that time I changed my diet, exercised each day, worked on my Love Letters Portfolio, and gave it all up to God thankful for my family of angels.
Sometimes in the midst of a life struggle you do not see the big picture. Afterwards when the dust has settled so to speak and you have been declared cancer free, you see the lesson. I found by staying positive and busy, cancer did not rule my life.
The change did not stop there. I have a compassion for others I did not have. I want to be that girl that gives a caring hand to others. The weird part is I seem more approachable to others. I like to think it is my silver hair that used to be dark brown.
If you could say one kind thing to your younger self, what would it be?
“Let all you do be done in love!”
I think our readers would appreciate hearing more about your values and what you think matters in life and career, etc. So our next question is along those lines. What would your closest friends say really matters to you?
All my friends know that the most important thing in my life is the blessing of the love of family!!
I will never forget when I got a phone call from my sister that her husband was in ICU after a car hit him head on. I was in the middle of one of my yearly Christmas photographic promotions. I was totally booked… 75 sessions. I cancelled all my appointments and found my sister in a puddle in the waiting room of the hospital and stayed with her until her husband was out of danger.
My business definitely took a hit but it led me to that moment where I entered the art world and as my husband says…”you have never been this creative.!”
Thank you so much for all of your openness so far. Maybe we can close with a future oriented question. What will you regret not doing?
In conversation with a friend, I stated my one regret…”My desire in college was to become a neonatal nurse. It is my one regret.” He told me …” You are doing exactly what you are meant to be.”
Contact Info:
- Website: https://debkeimborgfineart.com
- Instagram: Deb Kreimborg
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Image Credits
Images are all mine!!
