About Deborah Gregg
Welcome! This is the online home of Deborah Gregg. Deborah was an artist her entire life, until she passed away in the spring of 2026. Her vast library of cozy folk art designs, including this website and the Etsy shop, is owned and managed by her daughter, Rigel Celeste.
About Deborah Gregg
Deborah grew up in Illinois with her parents as a middle child with four siblings. She lived in many places but always loved the Midwest the most for its beautifully changing seasons. She most recently resided in an old farmhouse (complete with flowers and picket fence) in small town Minnesota. She had two daughters, Rigel and Brigitte, four beautiful grandchildren, and of course always a kitty on her lap.
Also yes, having a picture of Deborah here on this page would be the bomb! But alas she could not be convinced. So this beach scene she painted will have to do -- it feels like a good representation of her (she has the long dark braid and the sunhat!) doing something she loved to do years ago when she lived beachside: hunting for agates and sea glass with her dog and two daughters in tow.
About the business
Deborah was an artist at heart from a very young age, and tried many different styles over the years including oils, watercolors, and acrylics on different media types. She sold in galleries and did occasional odd jobs (for example she painted small peg people to fill wooden trains for a local toy company. They loved them! No two were the same) but it wasn't until the internet came into the picture that she was really able to focus on her art as real source of steady income.
She lived in rural Nebraska at the time and chose the name "Chicory Skies" for the beautiful blue wildflower called Chicory that matches the big Nebraska sky almost exactly. She got started selling on eBay at first, painting with acrylics on old barn wood. That went well! They were heavy and delicate to ship however, and barn wood wasn't always readily available. Doing some research she came upon the concept of small format art and ACEOs, and found there was a good market for small original paintings in collectible sizes.
She painted every day, a painting a day usually. So many little pieces! So many little stories. All inspired by her own life, her childhood, her love of God and gardening and nature and all things living, great and small.
She painted collectible ACEOs and other small format sizes daily for many years, selling them on eBay and eventually also getting started on Etsy. She realized that while she loved painting relying solely on selling originals made scaling up her business very difficult (also just taking a day off!) and so the idea to create prints from her work was born.
And what a blessing the prints have been! Deborah continued painting originals, creating prints of each one, up until recent years when she developed some health issues that made it too difficult. She was still full of ideas though and always had plans to return to it someday.
About the prints
All of the prints for sale here on ChicorySkies.com are taken from originals painted by Deborah Gregg. They are protected by copyright and are not available for reproduction in any way. Unless otherwise noted all prints are produced on archival quality photo paper by a professional printing company that we work with based out of Buffalo, New York.