Artist Bio: Deb Parker |
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Debbie trained and established her early painting style in Canberra almost 30 years ago. Living and working in Brisbane since 1996 she has exhibited mostly on the east coast of Australia in solo events and National Competitions and is held in many private collections. She qualified as a Graphic Artist in 1996 and ran her own small business alongside her Art Practice until 2008. “From my early experiments with water-based medium the randomness of paint has been fascinating to me; to show a loose shorthand description of the subject, with a touch of diffused mystery. I looked mostly at the post impressionists to understand the possibilities that deconstruction of the form gave to the feeling of lightness, air, and the velocity of movement. I then looked back a bit further as far back a Peter Paul Rubens and his mastery of movement in the human form. I take my subjects in and out of focus as if using a camera obscura. Using light spots and abstract obfuscated form in the background as compositional aide to move the eye around the work. My latest series is about seeing simple light interactions with familiar forms that makes the viewer take a second to understand the subject the direction of light and the surrounds. The object is not described explicitly but incongruously suggested by marks, made by man-made objects, to suggest the shape of natural things. The velocity of a breeze is felt if you are standing there at that moment, but what if you are conveying the movement of a breeze through branches or the movement of the feathers of a bird in a static 2-dimensional object like a painting. It’s difficult for the naked eye to focus on more than one thing at a time so simplifying the narrative is important to me. Identifying the central character for my viewer is my main task but the way in which that subject took prominence, the journey it took is just as important. So that can be a description of the passage of light around foliage or a skyline, a flower, or the movement of a bird. I want the work to echo the feeling of movement in a two-dimensional form. I use colours that suggest a place somewhere, a time of day or a weather experience. Just as natural forms shape the planet so too do those natural forces shape my works and Colour is just one the tools, I use to describe this. The heat of Summer in the middle of the day suggests a different colour set to a Winter morning at daybreak. So, a warm palette can dominate a summer scene and a cool palette the winter scene. Within the cool winter palette there are warm and cool colour interrelationships as there are different interactions in the warm summer palette.” Publications Arts Almanac July 2022 “In the Studio” Art Lovers Australia Feb 2023 “Emerging Artists top 30” Art Edit Autumn 2019 and 2021 “Q & A” and “Ones to Watch” Selected Exhibitions
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