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Big news from the last two weeks!
November's issue of Devon Life is out and I know I would be in it. Catherine Courtney the editor and photographer Jim Wileman had been to...
Deborah Last
Nov 4, 20221 min read
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Bucks Mills Artist in Residence.
Bucks Mills cabin blog. Today is the final day of my residency at Bucks Mills Cabin. I feel a huge sense of privilege having been able to...
Deborah Last
Sep 8, 20223 min read
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Nearly half way through the year!
It’s hard to believe but today is the summer solstice and I’m 172 days into this journey. On Sunday I could have packed it in; I’m not...
Deborah Last
Jun 21, 20222 min read
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Painting at THE wedding!
It’s hard to believe that two weeks have passed already since our daughter’s wedding. It was such a perfect day. though people have been...
Deborah Last
May 27, 20221 min read
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Artist in residencies for 2022
This year I have three artist in residencies. I can finally announce that I am artist in residence for the Appledore Book Festival in...
Deborah Last
Apr 13, 20222 min read
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Long-listed for the Jackson’s Painting Prize 2022
This is one of the paintings from February this year, part of the 365 daily painting challenge I have set myself. I was so thrilled to...
Deborah Last
Mar 24, 20221 min read
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Hitting the wall!
One of the things people keep asking about the 365 project is how do you keep going. it’s important to acknowledged that some days it’s...
Deborah Last
Mar 12, 20222 min read
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Traveling with my paint kit!
Today is the first time I am going away without the car and still needing to have my paining kit and a warm painting clothes with me. I...
Deborah Last
Feb 25, 20221 min read
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Paint Out at the Pier House
It was so good to be be at the Pier House celebrating the first month being completed. the weather wasn't the best but mostly because it...
Deborah Last
Jan 31, 20221 min read
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New Year, New Challenge!
Today the 365 days of en plein air daily painting started, one down 364 to go! I was so good an important to do the first day with...
Deborah Last
Jan 1, 20221 min read
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Gathered
This large piece on board is beginning to take shape. It has begun to say what I want it to. Most importantly I am investigating the...
Deborah Last
May 6, 20211 min read
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Pandemic Mothering: Adding colour and looking for simplicity.
I have begun to translate the drawn pieces onto the boards. There is something I like very much about the works on paper but the...
Deborah Last
May 5, 20211 min read
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Sketching the distance between us..
It has been so hard not to have seen the children for so long. Not seen at Christmas and hardly seen over the last year. Though we have...
Deborah Last
Apr 3, 20211 min read
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Being Long-listed for the Jackson's Painting Prize 2021.
I'm really pleased to announce that I have been long listed for the Jackson's Painting Prize 2021. This is Meldon Quarry pained during...
Deborah Last
Mar 25, 20211 min read
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Transferring the pandemic mothering drawings on to boards.
Last year as we worked on the show for Kast Gallery in Plymouth, testing our work for the MA show, one of the things that proved...
Deborah Last
Mar 24, 20211 min read
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Pandemic mothering.
It has been hard to be apart from the children. To only be able to zoom or messenger call. These paintings have been made as a result of...
Deborah Last
Mar 22, 20211 min read
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Pandemic Sketchbook
This pandemic time has not been so hard for us in many ways. We are tucked away in the South West corner of the country in North Devon....
Deborah Last
Mar 13, 20211 min read
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Bringing the landscape and the figures together...
For as long as I've been drawing and painting, which I guess is since I was 4, my practice has been about stories and landscapes. My...
Deborah Last
Feb 2, 20211 min read
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Ending daily painting in 3rd Lockdown
Having painted every day of the year until the 30th January, it just became too cold to go out. Wet and windy and unpleasant. hard to...
Deborah Last
Feb 1, 20211 min read
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The Dilema of Daily Painting
As third lockdown began I have already started the year by beginning a new daily painting project. getting out every day and connecting...
Deborah Last
Jan 26, 20211 min read
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