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From my earliest childhood, the sea with it’s continually changing moods, has always been the greatest source of inspiration for me. There is a great sense of calm and tranquility. The sound of the waves crashing, that distinctive smell and the wind on your face - in fact the whole 3-dimensional experience. I can never tire of it and it still evokes the same excitement now as it did when I was a child – running over the pebbles and sharp shells to be first to get to the sea. It is so evocative that it drives me to try to re-create it in my paintings.
There is a wonderful luminosity and reflective light quality that surrounds the coast. Everywhere else is very flat by comparison. This light quality creates ideas and inspires me.
The wild white breakers of the great Atlantic coast in Cornwall, such as Holywell Bay and Sennan Cove, and the translucent azure aquamarine tints around Studland in Dorset and Salcombe in Devon.
Although I draw most of my inspiration from the coasts around the South West, I have been very much inspired by places further afield such as the Seychelles, California and South Africa.
I like to walk over the great rolling hills of the South Downs in Sussex and Hampshire. From Butser Hill and The Trundle the sun beams down in shafts onto the sea in the distance. I try to re-create the brilliant blues that are almost tangible. Much of the way I interpret colour comes from my photographs, with the strong chromatic colours you get from transparencies.
I have also been influenced by minimalism - clean, clear lines, uncluttered, and un-chaotic - symmetry!
I like to paint in peace and to focus, and for that I need quietness.
I work in both watercolour and oil- each is very different and which medium I use depends on my mood, but it is the sea which draws me back each time.

	Oceania (Horizons Exhibition) Stroud, Debra boxed giclee on canvas 30 x 26½ (image size inches)
	Strata I (Horizons Exhibition) Stroud, Debra giclee 16 x 16 (image size inches)
	Strata II (Horizons Exhibition) Stroud, Debra giclee 16 x 16 (image size inches)
	Zephyr (Horizons Exhibition) Stroud, Debra giclee 25 x 32 (image size inches)
	Supersonic (Horizons Exhibition) Stroud, Debra giclee 24 x 24 (image size inches)
	Energy (Horizons Exhibition) Stroud, Debra silkscreen 35 x 35 (image size inches)
	Energy (Horizons Exhibition) - boxed canvas silkscreen Stroud, Debra boxed canvas silkscreen 35 x 35 (image size inches)
	Cumulus I (Horizons Exhibition) Stroud, Debra giclee 10 x 10 (image size inches)
	Cumulus II (Horizons Exhibition) Stroud, Debra giclee 10 x 10 (image size inches)
	Horizon (Horizons Exhibition) Stroud, Debra silkscreen 30 x 45 (image size inches)
	Horizon (Horizons Exhibition) - boxed canvas silkscreen Stroud, Debra boxed canvas silkscreen 30 x 45 (image size inches)
	Blaze (Horizons Exhibition) Stroud, Debra giclee 24 x 24 (image size inches)
	Mistral (Horizons Exhibition) Stroud, Debra giclee 22 x 28 (image size inches)

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