Biog

Deborah Porter (b.1969, UK) is a British mixed media artist based in Winchester, UK. She received her degree at City & Guilds Art School in London in 1993 and further Digital training from the London College of Printing She is currently doing her MA in Fine Arts at Winchester School of Art, Southampton University.

Her work has been exhibited locally and internationally, including shows at St Martins In The Fields, (London), Harvey Nicks (fifth floor), shared exhibitions (London), among many others. She has had work in Open-call exhibitions, and been a CAS Artist Associate taking up an offer of artist residency in 2019 her work has sold in London, France and Hampshire.

Artist Statement

Deborah Porter is an abstract figurative artist based in Winchester, UK, she is known for her emotional paintings that explore themes of embodiment, mark responsiveness and exploring the body from within. 

With original influences from the German Expressionists, her work is now inspired by American Abstract Expressionism and contemporary female artists studying the female from within. She is drawn to the physicality of mark-making, gestural painting and the visual authenticity of female form. Her work is characterised by dynamic mark-making that evokes her response to the female body and her emotions within. She is influenced by Robert Motherwell, Maria Lassning and Amy Silliman. 

She seeks to challenge and resolve the divide between inner feelings and belonging to our bodies reflecting this through process and going to the darker side of self through meditative musical gateways.

Deborah is currently studying an MA in Fine Arts at Winchester School of Art exploring processes, bending substrates and researching through visual enquiry spirituality, connecting and responding to our authentic self via Jung and shamanic visioning.

“My work is visceral it’s where marks meet emotions and visual reactions to the intangible.”