Debbie Parker Solo 2020 Recent Work
Australian Landscape, Birds and Blossoms shot with light and captured in movement, Debbie Parker’s Expressive Paintings are nothing short of exciting and a really different way of looking at familiar Australian icons.
One of the first artists to exhibit in the ALL NEW “Latrobe Artspace” formerly Percolator Gallery, she is excited about giving art collectors the chance to own a unique, affordable piece of art for their home. Now that we have to spend more time in our homes, here in Australia why not celebrate Art for Australia. Normally Deb would have been exhibiting in competitions around Australia throughout this year but COVID 19 has set new challenges for artists as well as the charities and Not for Profit Associations like schools that artists support by exhibiting their work.
Deb lives close to Mount Coot-Tha Botanical Gardens and the National Park in Brisbane and says she never gets tired of developing new ideas from the snapshots she takes of the local area while she is out walking. The movement of the hand making quick, gestural marks, with brush or drawing implement develop into representational forms showing movement and light in nature. Minimal detail brings the focussed subject into view against an almost abstract ground.
With over 25 years of experience as an artist, Debbie developed her expressionist style at the Canberra Institute of Art, in the early Nineties. Since then she has competed and exhibited in Sydney, Adelaide, Canberra and Southeast Queensland. Her loose gestural rendering of movement and light on Australian forms is something you can never get tired of.
She has also completed focussed workshops with well known artists here in Queensland, including some Archibald Prize notables. So, come and talk to her at the gallery during the exhibition. She’ll be there every day.
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 “Peoples’ Choice” which has received several times now.