Deborah English is an oil painter whose paintings include bucolic scenes, animals, landscape, still life and figures. Some paintings are salon-sized, large format pieces.
See an essay in the "Downloads" section, regarding her interest in observing animals
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 | | Landscapes are inspired by home and travel, though they are more about memory than reportage. |
 | | Figure paintings come from incidental moments with family and friends. This is a continuation of the 'daily lives' theme that runs through all of Ms. English's work. |
 | | Place and Time evoked by the objects that occupy them. |
 | | Animal paintings form a large portion of the 'daily lives' theme that runs through all of Ms. English's work. The characters are observed reacting to human interventions, and also as they go about their lives in their own, untroubled realm. |
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Baltimore, MD 21212
United States
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Deborah English is an artist with homes in Baltimore, Maryland and rural East Texas. A life long interest in the cattle business has provided inspiration for much of her work. Yet, as a figurative painter, she finds subject matter in all the world around her; her oeuvre contains landscapes, animal paintings, figure paintings and still life. She is attracted by the interstices of the natural and man-made worlds. Recently, she has turned her attention to wildlife and birds.
She is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art (cum laude), and has exhibitied consistently in the two decades since finishing there. In addition to her gallery exhibitions, her work has appeared in numerous charity events, with such venues as the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore and the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland.
At MICA, she had extensive training in theories of abstraction, and, while today she paints objectively, she continues to value the significance of abstraction in realist... |
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