Artists Statement
Based in Bethesda, North Wales, Deanne has been a professional artist for over 15 years. Known best for her tonalist landscape paintings in oil, her work is held in private collections across the UK and abroad and she exhibits throughout Wales.
Deanne has an exhibition at Plas Glyn-y-Weddw from October 12 - December 24, 2025, entitled:
The Space Between....
The Space Between… evolves from my previous exhibition, Five Miles from Home, which explored hand-foraged pigments gathered within walking distance of my home. This new body of work moves beyond painting into scent, sound, touch, and sculpture, creating an experience that draws attention to the unseen.
The exhibition considers the journey between extremes; right and wrong, belonging and loss, grief and joy. Life is most often lived in these liminal spaces: ambiguous yet full of possibility, where contradiction, compromise and renewal coexist.
My practice is rooted in an exploration of time, place, and our fragile relationship with the natural world. I reflect on how human time differs from the slow endurance of stone, the rhythms of insects, or the growth of trees, and how permanence is always provisional. At the same time, my work responds to human complexity: our contradictions and destructive impulses, alongside our capacity for resilience, tenderness and reinvention.
Living in North Wales, I draw on the layered history of a landscape that is both wild and industrial, shaped by farming, forestry, and quarrying. Working with wool, slate waste, and pine resin, materials often overlooked or discarded; I invite questions about value, permanence, and the hope that lies in the fragile, fertile space between.
See below process shots from the series 'A Space Between...'
