The 26 paintings featured in Debbie George's booklet are currently available for purchase. The remainder of the exhibition will be on sale from 1pm on the day of the opening (Saturday 6th April)
Debbie George's work is a celebration of her passion for flowers and the objects with which she surrounds herself - from ceramics to fruits, feathers and stones. Landscape is an important influence that underlies her paintings, whether they are of particular places or still-life compositions.
Debbie frequently assembles flowers or objects within the foreground of a painting and sets them against a far landscape, so that you sense a domestic space opening out into nature: both spaces are revealed with surprising clarity and with a perspective that is uniquely the artist's own. The carefully selected objects - some found or given, others acquired especially for painting - are equally carefully positioned, to the extent that the space between them, or emptiness around them, is highly resonant.
Working with the ancient medium of gesso, with which she primes her panels, Debbie George builds up layer upon layer of paint, creating a wonderful luminosity and depth that she reveals by scratching into and through the layers: an inscribing that she also uses to emphasise form. By doing so she expresses subtle tonal and sculptural qualities.
Debbie George's paintings, although sometimes small in size, have a richness and intensity that far exceeds their scale.
(Clare Lilley, Curator, Yorkshire Sculpture Park).
Selected Exhibitions
2015
Bircham Gallery, Norfolk (solo show March 2015)
2014
Rob Fogell Gallery, Stamford
Beside the wave Gallery, Falmouth, Cornwall (solo show Oct 2014)
Bircham gallery, Norfolk
Byard Art, Cambridge
Stour Galley - Shipston-on Stour
Chantry House gallery, Ripley, North Yorkshire
2013
Bircham gallery, Norfolk solo show
Byard Art, Cambridge
Beside the wave Gallery, Falmouth, Cornwall
Stour Galley - Shipston-on Stour
2012
Bircham Gallery, Norfolk
Beside the wave Gallery, Falmouth, Cornwall
Byard Art, Cambridge
Stour Galley - Shipston-on Stour
2011
Byard Art, London art fair
Bircham Gallery, Norfolk (solo show)
Byard Art, Spring exhibition, Cambridge
Beside the wave Gallery, Spring exhibition, Falmouth, Cornwall
New Ashgate Gallery, Surrey (solo show June 2011)
Rob Fogell Gallery, Stamford (solo show November 2011)
Byard Art, Cambridge Christmas show
Bircham Gallery, Norfolk
Beside the wave Gallery
New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, Surrey
2010
Beside the wave, Cornwall
Stour Galley - Shipston-on Stour
Byard Art, Cambridge, London, New York
Bircham Gallery, Norfolk
Rob Fogell, Stamford
New Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey
The Wey Gallery, Godalming Surrey
2009
Ainscough Contemporary Art, London (solo show)
Bircham Gallery, Norfolk
Byard Art - New York Art fair
2008
Byard art - Art London exhibition
New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, Surrey
Beside the wave, Falmouth, Cornwall
2007
Yorkshire Sculpture Park (solo)
New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, Surrey
Bircham Gallery, Norfolk
2005
Holmfirth Art Week
Orange Street Gallery, Uppingham
Red Barn Gallery, Cumbria
Lupton Square Gallery, Yorkshire
Gallery Top, Derbyshire
2004
Shire Hall gallery, Stafford
The Red Gallery - Thame, Oxfordshire
The Derek Topp Gallery - Chatsworth, Derbyshire
Holmfirth Artweek - Featured Artist
2003
Kenwood House - Hampstead, London
The Affordable Art Fair - London
The Red Gallery - Thame, Oxfordshire
2002
Sanderson George & Peach - Holmfirth, Oxfordshire