Gallery of Paintings

Debbie Parker

Debbie’s love of the Australian landscape and it’s natural forms gives her an inexhaustible variety of subjects for her paintings. She is able to invest an ordinary observation with emotional power and extend its presence into the viewer's field of perception. Debbie creates hauntingly beautiful renderings of the visible world that are interpretations of the feelings she has about what she sees. Couple that with a love of colour and an energetic method of rendering and you have a truly unique way of experiencing the landscape.

Her formal training in painting and other media was undertaken in Canberra and in Brisbane but she is predominantly self taught. Debbie has exhibited in Sydney and Canberra before moving back home to Brisbane in 1994. After a break in her Art Practice she has recommenced exhibiting in Brisbane.

Debbie’s images are essentially Australian landscape designs taken from experiencing the site and then interpreting the landscape or natural form with a poetic mystery that takes it beyond natural appearances. She uses a stark graphic interpretation of reduced representational forms and amplified intense colour relationships to achieve these striking forms that accentuate light and natural design. This enables Debbie to emphasize an aspect of the view that is most important. This could be the light play of the vertical lines in a stand of gums or the texture of a burnt tree trunk. This is a multi layered approach where each deliberate or random mark or plain of colour is evaluated to be exploited to its full extent and then woven into a representational image, that simply suggests of the source of the inspiration. Parts of each layer of working are visible in the finished piece and show the evolution of the working process.

Water effects play an important part in her interpretation of natural subjects added with impasto to give a tactile aspect that is so important in the visual story. Transparency is used to give luminosity and vibrancy adding value to the energy of her “Expressionist” representation of natural forms.

To view a sampler of Debbie's work use the menu to the left of this page. to view Artist's CV and Statement.