Deedee Hampton is a diverse painter- she creates paintings in two unique styles.

Her "Magic, Mirth & Mystery Paintings" allow bold symbolic images to surface, telling stories about the inner landscape. Hampton is a story teller and cultural commentator. She loves color, symbology, and beauty.  Some of her work is very personal, but much of it is a launching pad for conversations about contemporary culture and life's shared experiences.

Her series of playful "Spirit Animal Paintings" are inspired by the animals she often sees near her home in the Rocky Mountains or while traveling. For Deedee, a Spirit Animal is an animal that either shows up in the flesh in a person's life or symbolically in dreams, meditation or visual images to that person. The person feels a deep unique connection to that animal. This animal (& there can be more than one) guides and inspires the person with its characteristics. The spirit animal is also a metaphor, often humorous, for someone or something a person relates to or admires. Hampton's paintings contain mandalas in the background- they are the animal's spiritual energy grids.

Deedee has been a creator/maker -her whole life. She has a Master's Degree in Stained Glass. "Embroidery, weaving baskets, painting on silk, mixed media sculptures, mosaic art, clay, painting, collage- you name it- I love it all!!!