Born in Donnemarie-en-Montis, near Provins, France, Deberdt grew up in a rural environment. “I became serious about art at the age of seven and began to study drawing by using a correspondence school course. At the age of fourteen, Deberdt moved to Paris to study at the Ecole d’ Arts Appliqués. She graduated in 1954 and continued her art training in Paris at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts. It was there that she met her husband, Jean Claude Bernard. They married in 1960, and shortly thereafter left for four years at the Villa Medici in Rome.

Architecture was a subject that had always interested her and marrying an architect only increased that interest. After working with Les Bâtiments Civils de France drawing plans for restoration of beautiful old buildings and villages, Deberdt became specialized in doing etchings of German architecture.

Churches appear frequently in Deberdt’s work and reflect her continuing study of church architecture. She is, however, as fascinated by religion itself as she is by its architectural forms. “When I do a picture of anything, I like to do a synthesis of a story, to include all of the elements.”

Ms. Deberdt has won several awards including first prize in the Salon des Beaux Arts de Troyes and first prize in the Exhibition of Deauville, Galerie Borel. Her work can be found in numerous collections throughout the world.