Debra is a London-based mixed-media artist. With a fine arts background from Kingston School of Art, she has over two decades of artistic experience ranging from theatre stage settings and prop making to captivating feature walls and teaching. Her clients include Anthropologie, Vogue, and V&A Museum London.

Debra's artistic journey has now led her to fully immerse herself in painting. Her creative passion extends to her travels, especially in India, where she finds inspiration in found treasures, old textiles and the coloured streets. Her work revolves around an obsession with colour, texture, and collage, drawing deep inspiration from the beauty of decay and the allure of faded elegance. The worn and weathered hold endless fascination, crumbling walls, peeling paint, torn papers, and delicate lime wash hues that shift with the light. These multi-layered fragments of history, filled with subtle imperfections and rich textures, are at the heart of her paintings and

Debra lives in London where the vibrant culture is a constant inspiration, while India, particularly Rajasthan, has captured my heart, Influencing much of her vibrant artwork. Its gem-like palaces, crumbling facades, timeless beauty, multi-layered fragments of history.

She works with a dynamic mix of acrylics, inks, dyes & fabrics, using a process of collaging, rubbing, building layers and drawing to let pattern, texture, and colour emerge organically.

Debra travels widely, filling her treasured sketchbooks, the beginning of her creative process. She runs a small Art tour to India each year.

Her New book The Pigment Trail was published in April last year. Through her sketchbook and camera, Debra has created a unique portrait of a country seen through the eye of an artist. Debra invites readers to embark on her artistic odyssey across India through captivating collages, drawings, photographs and musings.

You can hear a little about it in a recent interview on the podcast in the link below.