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Debbie Parker: Expressionist Landscapes, Birds & Flowers

Art Lovers | 15 September 2021

Debbie Parker is a Brisbane based visual artist. Her natural motifs reflect her love for the outdoors, and a natural world that is constantly moving.

Deb sketches in the field or works from multiple photos taken at different times of day and works up her finished ideas in the studio. Most of her subjects come from her walks around the Mount Cooth-Tha National Park and surrounds. The birds outside her window as well have been captured in movement, subjects she never tires of.

The dryness of the time of year is a key to the colour choice just as much as the time of day. Strong colour contrasts show light and shadow to create forms. One pathway can provide so many different views. Looking up, looking down, looking at ground level to the horizon and up through the canopy to the sky. All these different vantage points provide another way of seeing.

“My paintings and drawings express movement and light play on Australian landscapes, birds and flowers. It’s a short-hand of mark-making techniques: quick, gestural strokes to explain familiar forms with colourful transparent layers that add depth.”

“I’ve been an artist for more than 25 years. While living in Canberra I had a fantastic opportunity to study practical painting techniques taking night classes at the Canberra Institute of Art in the early 1990’s. While there I experimented in many different art mediums, but I came away with a more adventurous attitude about experimenting with water-based mediums and taught myself to apply that to the subjects I love.”

“While I draw constantly, I aim to complete 2-3 paintings every month to exhibit throughout the year. I work in small series of under ten finished pieces mostly so that I don’t get bored with the subject matter. I work on several paintings simultaneously in a large studio with several easels spread around the room.”

“I work with pastels or charcoal for my drawing and acrylics for my paintings on linen. I love the soft, painterly effects you can get. Sometimes I use both pastel and acrylic paint as mixed media on linen with multiple transparent layers bound with Acrylic painting medium. The two mediums are very complementary together. I use acrylic varnishes in the layering process to make the surface robust.”

“Over the past three years I have revisited the Australian bird compositions from my early years of painting to show the movement of birds. My ideas come from observations and develop in the working process. The backgrounds mimic abstract light distortions as if referencing effects of the camera out of focus. The birds and other focal points emerge from the surface as the final layers are applied.”

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With Deb’s husband recently retired and further travels planned in Tasmania and Western Australia after restrictions ease new ideas will come to her landscape paintings.

Debbie’s work had been recognised in National and local competitions and her work is increasing in popularity each year being held in many private collections. She has won many prizes but her favourite category is “People’s Choice” which Debbie has received several times now.

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