Deborah Bell attended art school in both New York and Seattle, graduating from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle in 1981, where she has lived and worked since.
“My process is intuitive and immediate. My themes (or obsessions) arise from observing what is in the world, both environmentally and socially."
Deborah has always worked with a variety of materials, having a life long practice of combining and layering, using drawing and collage in the weave with paint. Nature, in its broadest sense, is her recurring theme, and how we humans are not separate from it in any way but are connected by the layers of our intelligence and awareness. She uses fundamental, universal forms exploring a multitude of inherent meanings and connections. A recurring interest lies in observing systems in nature; observing how one entity is like, or mirrors, another, for example: microbiology and celestial bodies, music and words and biological patterns. A playful term used by Deborah to occasionally describe her work is invented science.
“My process is intuitive and immediate. My themes (or obsessions) arise from observing what is in the world, both environmentally and socially."
Deborah has always worked with a variety of materials, having a life long practice of combining and layering, using drawing and collage in the weave with paint. Nature, in its broadest sense, is her recurring theme, and how we humans are not separate from it in any way but are connected by the layers of our intelligence and awareness. She uses fundamental, universal forms exploring a multitude of inherent meanings and connections. A recurring interest lies in observing systems in nature; observing how one entity is like, or mirrors, another, for example: microbiology and celestial bodies, music and words and biological patterns. A playful term used by Deborah to occasionally describe her work is invented science.
