Deb L Bunker

How would you describe the work you do and why?

My paintings are studies of memories, in landscape this might mean a study of important habitat that might be under threat or maybe just a celebration of light on a distant hillside, the image lending a sense of occurring in a specific moment that will soon pass. I hope to welcome the viewer to use their imagination and explore their senses, whether it's a feeling of spray from crashing waves, the warm sun peering through rolling hills or time passing in the stretching of a leafs' shadow.

For you what does being an artist mean?:

My daily practice starts with a walk and a meditation in nature, exploring the countryside around my home. This ritual not only prepares me mentally for the days' painting but is also a means of gathering information. I live to paint and any form of creativity, but particularly the calm, quite nature of painting and drawing is a means of keeping sane in a world bombarded with information and technology.

Describe what you call yourself/your practice?:

I am a painter in oils and watercolours with drawing being my daily practice when not able to get in my studio. My subject matter spans landscape, still life, and portraiture. I regularly run workshops in watercolour and drawing in Mid Wales and the borders and am a member of Creative Breaks group of teaching practitioners.

Your practice & activities include e.g workshops, teaching:

I run regular workshops in Mid Wales and the Herefordshire borders teaching painting and drawing.

CV & Education, relevant & leading to your artistic practice:

I studied Fashion design and illustration at art college but, on graduating, got a job as a natural history illustrator for Cardiff University and have barely made another frock since! Working freelance for many years an an illustrator, I took some time off to bring up my two sons before getting back to the easel. I no longer do illustration work, preferring to just to paint for my own sake and to share my knowledge of painting and drawing.

Exhibitions in the last 3 years:

Central Wales Open, 2025
HArt 2023, 2024, 2025 at The Hymns
HArt 2025 at The Chair, Hay-on Wye
Argoed Mill Studio, October 2025
Mid Wales Gallery, Summer Exhibition 2023, 2024

Your gallery outlets/stockists:

Flock gallery Kington
Sea and Slate Gallery Llangrannog

Artwork for Deb L Bunker

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