Approved: 23.03.2010

Deborah Feiler

Artist, Community worker

Approved: 23.03.2010

In my work I am silently watching the natural world and trying to describe the relationsip between that landscape and an inner world. I paint, draw and scratch. Some work is made using a square format to create an undefined space, my choice of palette there is about referencing light rather than local colour; and whilst the repetition is governed by underlying structures - such as the

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  • Location: Bristol, South West
  • Contexts: Studio practice
  • Artforms: Drawing, Painting
  • Tags: 2d, contemplative, drawing, line, minimalism, nature, environmental, fragile, philosophical, science, geology, history, still, waves
 

Artist Statement

In my work I am silently watching the natural world and trying to describe the relationsip between that landscape and an inner world. I paint, draw and scratch. Some work is made using a square format to create an undefined space, my choice of palette there is about referencing light rather than local colour; and whilst the repetition is governed by underlying structures - such as the shadows cast by the arc of the sun, or the growth of lichen - the work is more to do with the experience of looking, than a literal representation. My current work has moved from these Minimalist ideas of repetition, returning to a more figurative response now to the tree, and its heroic presence in our challenged and chaotic world - to this end the canvases are very small. What guides me is an interest and intention to move from the landscape to a quiet and contemplative inner world. 

CV & Education

Qualifications and training 2009 - MA Fine Art (distinction), Bath Spa University, Bath Group exhibitions 2012 - DRAWING MMX2, Howard Gardens Gallery , Cardiff 2012 - Fine Line. Art of Drawing - John Ruskin Prize, Brantwood House, Coniston, Cumbria 2011 - 106th Summer Exibition, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath 2011 - Digital Format Group Exhibition, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London 2011 - Studio 17 Spring Show, Motorcade/Flashparade, Bristol 2010 - 158th Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol 2010 - A Population of Rabbits, Arlington Arts Centre, Newbury 2010 - Here Today, Gone Tomorrow, Fringe Arts Bath, Bath 2009 - Drawn In, Sidcot Arts Centre, Avon 2008 - 103rd Bath Society of Artists Exhibition, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath 2007 - 155th Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol Competitions, prizes and awards 2012 - The John Ruskin Prize (shortlisted) "Fine Line. Art of Drawing", Brantwood, Cumbria 2010 - Black Swan Open Arts Competition, Black Swan Arts, Frome, Somerset 2003 - Bristol Decorative and Fine Art Society Student Award, Bristol Decorative and Fine Art Society, Bristol Other 2010 - Passing time, Black Swan Arts, Frome 2009 - Work gifted by Bath Spa University to, Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, China