The ocean has always known Deborah Alden Turner better than most people do. Long before she picked up a brush, it was already shaping her — the light on the water, the way a sunset stops you mid-step, the feeling of standing at the edge of something vast and knowing you belong there.

It started in Stone Harbor, where she spent her college summers close to the Jersey Shore. She used to climb to the fourth floor of an iconic house — a teenage girl at a window with the ocean stretching out before her. That girl never really left.

She was collecting beauty long before she knew she’d one day make it herself. The homes she decorated throughout Stone Harbor and Avalon were always filled with original art. Buyers would walk through and pause — they said the artwork gave the spaces something they couldn’t name. Debbie knew exactly what it was.

At 65, after passing her contracting businesses to her children, she picked up a paintbrush for the first time since that fourth-floor room. No instruction. Just instinct — the same instinct that had guided her eye for decades.

Waves that move. Skies that glow. Shorelines that make you want to take your shoes off. Two coasts, one soul, and a lifetime of looking at the water finally finding its way out.

She hopes you’ll love having these paintings in your home the way she has always loved living with art in hers.