About the Artist

 

 

Debra Lee

"I am an explorer. Painting is my personal exploration of the subject, as well as the materials I use to create a work. It is a fluid progress that begins with an image, emotion or subject; but the composition unfolds and blossoms as the task progresses. The images guide me to create and shape them as they take on a life of their own. I become, not the creator, but a partner in the creation.

I am an architect and a mathematician, problem solving and piecing the image together from single brush strokes into a whole. I work with layers of thick and thin color, adding marks with pencil or charcoal. Surfaces are wiped, dripped and splattered according, not to my whims, but to the design that I discover along the way.

I am a lover. My art is a personal relationship of give and take. Each layer or mark determines and guides the next. The act of creating is a personal solace. Watching an image materialize from white canvas fulfils some need within me that knows no other gratification.

I am a prisoner, a slave to my passion. I am an Artist."

 

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