Deborah Mitchelson

The Artist

STATEMENT

Deborah Mitchelson is a British artist, born in Edinburgh and now based in West Sussex. She is a masters graduate from the Univeristy of Chichester having completed a BA Hons from the University of the Creative Arts, Farnham.

Her paintings are inspired by the landscape. Her experience and encounters through journeys informs her practice. Deborah relates her work to a sense of place, whether imagined or real.

The traces of presence are seen in a pathway emerging in the grass away from the footpath. By working into the surface of the painting by layering, plastering and carving, she allows the work to evolve continuously until a surface is reached that has its own history, revealing or hiding what has gone before. Colour is used intuitively and the embroidered contours suggest a map of the route of her walks.

Memories and imagination influence the way in which we perceive the world. Deborah’s painting hover between a real and illusionary world.

CURRICULUM VITAE

QUALIFICATIONS

2007 – MA in Fine Art, University of Chichester.
2000 – BA(Hons) in Fine Art, University of the Creative Arts, Farnham.

EXHIBITIONS

2018
  • Our eArth, Kunsthuis Gallery, North Yorkshire
  • Chichester Open Studios Trail
  • Southern Ceramic Exhibition, Bishop’s Kitchen, Chichester
2017
  • Southern Ceramic Exhibition, Bishop’s Kitchen, Chichester
  • Shades of Clay Kunsthuis Gallery, North Yorkshire
2016
  • Chichester Art Trail, Open Studios
  • Southern Ceramic Exhibition, Bishop’s Kitchen, Chichester
  • Kingshill Art Gallery, near Tunbridge Wells
  • DMH Stallard, Solicitors Office, Crawley
2015
  • Le Hangar, Centre des Arts, Espace Culturel, Theoule-sur-Mer, Cote D’Azur
  • Southern Ceramic Exhibition, Bishop’s Kitchen, Chichester
2014
  • Chichester Open Studios
2013
  • Chichester Open Studios
  • The Art House Gallery, East Horsley, Surrey
2012
  • Chichester Open Studios
  • Arundel Art Trail