Introduction
Deborah is a Visual Artist.
She has always found the natural world truly awe-inspiring; her work expresses her deep need to show others her many faceted and ever evolving view of Nature.
Man is meaningfully integral and directly connected into the natural world. Deborah's art expresses fundamental human experiences, feelings and ideas. It can join inner and outer emotional and physical worlds.
She is not an environmental activist in the sense of directly commenting through her work, on degradation, loss of species, climate etc., there are many other artists and groups working from that direction. Deborah seeks instead to positively show the life-enhancing, beautiful, amazing and essentially sacred of land, sea, and sky that we all have around and as part of us.
"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, built sculpture in natural materials with organic form, paper and book arts, 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.
With recent world travel, she is interested in the local, traditional and distinctive of way of life and visual landscape. She is providing arts and crafts classes on small traditional cruise ships, and enjoying giving the opportunity to others to discover something of their own creativity.
"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."
All work and images are copyright of the artist, or those credited.
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.
