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Mixed media collages, watercolours and Jo Sonja paint on MDF board or canvas for sale
Revelations: Narratives of an Imagined Future
60x90 cm mixed media and gouche on MDF board
$900
see below for artist blurb
[email protected]
Mixed media collages, watercolours and Jo Sonja paint on MDF board or canvas for sale
Revelations: Narratives of an Imagined Future
60x90 cm mixed media and gouche on MDF board
$900
see below for artist blurb
Introduction to Debra Phillips: Painter aND WRITER
When I paint I tell myself a story about the people in the scenes, the events leading up to the scenes and the qualities of each person within the painting. For me, a painting is a story. Although it is entire in itself, there is always a story before the image and a story after the image. Decades ago when I painted the series of saints, I also wrote on the back a short story about the life of the saint (either imagined or real).
It was a natural progression to write longer stories about the lives of my friend as saints. These were well received. I was asked to write short stories for my friends for specific events and celebrations such as a wedding anniversary or a birthday. Some requests include a story about safe travel on a plane, managing Xmas lunch with difficult relatives and for an adult son leaving home.
Some stories included water colour paintings or collage or photographs I had taken. The concept of hand crafted books emerged.
Story writing has overtaken my self and my life. There is always a tension between the desire to write and the desire to paint. Sometimes the paintings emerge from writing and sometimes the story comes from seeing a theme running through paintings or collage images.
Fairy story themes are a constant thread running through all the stories. Some fairy stories are obvious and others are hidden in the other themes of the story. All my stories are about the human condition, especially its frailties and it’s complex relationships.
The stories are being moulded by on-going academic research into the notion of time experienced in fairy stories, how time is collapsed and how fairy stories can become a narrative about an imagined future. There is a definite feminist theorising, theological and Christian perspective in all the stories for these elements are part of previous academic research.
Each book is hand crafted. The stories are my stories, the paintings, collages and photographs are my own.
A handcrafted book by Debra Phillips is a work of art.
It was a natural progression to write longer stories about the lives of my friend as saints. These were well received. I was asked to write short stories for my friends for specific events and celebrations such as a wedding anniversary or a birthday. Some requests include a story about safe travel on a plane, managing Xmas lunch with difficult relatives and for an adult son leaving home.
Some stories included water colour paintings or collage or photographs I had taken. The concept of hand crafted books emerged.
Story writing has overtaken my self and my life. There is always a tension between the desire to write and the desire to paint. Sometimes the paintings emerge from writing and sometimes the story comes from seeing a theme running through paintings or collage images.
Fairy story themes are a constant thread running through all the stories. Some fairy stories are obvious and others are hidden in the other themes of the story. All my stories are about the human condition, especially its frailties and it’s complex relationships.
The stories are being moulded by on-going academic research into the notion of time experienced in fairy stories, how time is collapsed and how fairy stories can become a narrative about an imagined future. There is a definite feminist theorising, theological and Christian perspective in all the stories for these elements are part of previous academic research.
Each book is hand crafted. The stories are my stories, the paintings, collages and photographs are my own.
A handcrafted book by Debra Phillips is a work of art.