Introduction
Deborah is a Visual Artist.
She finds the natural world quietly awe-inspiring; her work expresses Nature with its many facets.
Deborah's art explores fundamental human experiences, feelings and ideas. It can join inner and outer human emotional and physical worlds.
She seeks to positively and creatively show the life-enhancing, essentially sacred of land, sea, and sky that we all have around and as part of us. It is about a spiritual aesthetic found in the natural world; about stories to be told.
"I work in a site specific manner, responding to places, spaces, people and situations to develop meaningful exciting work.
Underpinning all her work as each piece progresses, is excitement; in exploring ideas and aesthetic visual expression, in her sense when the work 'feels right', and in the skillful tactile element with varying materials.
Deborah uses a variety of mediums and art/craft forms, as seems appropriate to each separate piece; she works with glass and light, digital photography, microscopy, built sculpture in natural materials with organic form, paper and book arts, textile, and mixed media. Material and process can be as important as the finished work. Experiencing transitory and ephemeral art can be of essence, and solid and permanent work has a different quality. All are important.
"I find a new conscious understanding, through images and words that begin as unconscious responses; initially intangible, often ephemeral, it is their gradual realisation on paper, screen, or making in a solid medium that creates personal awareness. In turn, my work is for other people."
Ocean Cathedral Sculpture by the Sea Bondi 2013 (photo S Burns)
Dynamic Earth, series. Sand, from Injidup Beach Western Australia, micro photography. The pink/orange coloured sand grain is approximately 1mm in diameter. Art in the Ark, 9 April - 8 July 2016.