Deborah Tilby
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BoldBrush Recommends: Deborah Tilby
Biography
Hello and welcome. I'm very happy that you have taken the time to learn more about me and my work.
I am often asked why painting has been my passion for so long. I haven't found that to be an easy question to answer but here are a few thoughts.
Even at a very young age I would be noticing light and shadow, texture and colour but almost without realizing I was doing it. I don't know where the need to try to paint those observations comes from but it is what has motivated me all my life.
When I paint, it is my intention to be relatively faithful to the colour and light that I see all around me while experimenting and playing with the paint application. I would like my brush and knife handling to be as interesting as the subject; to have the mark making and the colour working together to be the life and energy of the work. At least that is my goal! Accomplishing that goal is always difficult but also fascinating, and really fulfilling. It keeps me painting almost daily!
Although I did a lot of drawing in my early teens, I was eighteen when I first tried painting. After two small oils, I did my first watercolour and I was hooked! I fell in love with watercolour and it was my medium for a very long time. I now work predominantly in oil which I thoroughly enjoy but if there were more hours in the day I would paint in oil, watercolour and gouache and explore sculpting and printmaking…
I am Canadian but at age twenty three I moved to England where I lived for fourteen years. It was there that I fell in love with the pastoral landscape and villages of England and Europe which were the subject of my watercolours at that time. I still miss it! I have been back on the west coast of British Columbia for years now and although I am still attracted to street scenes, I really enjoy painting the boats, waves and marinas that are all around me.
I am very glad that people like you appreciate my work and choose to hang it in your homes; it is thrilling, wonderful and humbling.
Thank you!
And thanks for stopping by. I hope you’ll check out my latest paintings on the Available page.
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