I have never been content to create work that merely pleases the eye or enhances the decor; nor do I want my work simply to mean something.  I prefer to demand more from both my viewers and myself:  I want to arrest the eye and hold it long enough to engage the viewer in an ongoing emotional and intellectual response.

DEBORAH KAPLAN EVANS

DEBORAH KAPLAN EVANS

Working in her style:Start with a mind map to create a theme eg: The Built Environment, Castles. Use the words from your mind map to research with, eg: turret, castles, knights, horses, armour, cannons, swords, shields, gates and draw bridges. Cut out the pictures you collect.Make a collage overlapping the images.Trace the collage, paint your copy.

DEBORAH KAPLAN EVANSTo create her pictures she uses images she has collected from photographs, magazines, and collages them together in a theme.

She then traces her collage and paints from the drawing making sure she copies the colours and images accurately.