Deborah Freedman

Deborah Freedman, "Watershed #9" monoprint, blue tree

2023

"The Watershed Series of monoprints was published by the Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon. In September 2023, I had the honor of serving as a Guest Artist in the Master o...

"The Watershed Series of monoprints was published by the Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon. In September 2023, I had the honor of serving as a Guest Artist in the Master o...

"The Watershed Series of monoprints was published by the Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon. In September 2023, I had the honor of serving as a Guest Artist in the Master o...

In Deborah Freedman's Watershed series (2023) she begins each monoprint with the same tree, and subsequently hand-colors each work, sometimes adding a female figure to the compositio...

These are the foggy woods in the hills of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. Shortly after sunrise. The paths are crowded with towering eucalyptus, bay laurel and madrone tr...

"I am primarily driven by an exploration of colour and form. My objective is to bring an emotional is to bring an emotional element and aesthetic balance to my work." "It came to me in the middle of the night - as these things often do - that to incorporate gold leaf into the finished print would neatly encapsulate some of the elements I am trying to express. Its application would obviously have to be done by hand with all its attendant imperfections and mistakes. Kintsugi - the Japanese art of patching broken ceramics with gold - shares its aesthetic with Wabi Sabi." - Valda Bailey...

These are the foggy woods in the hills of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. Shortly after sunrise. The paths are crowded with towering eucalyptus, bay laurel and madrone tr...

The moody scene of a shady bend in a forest path was captured at dawn on a winter's day. The sky is beginning to brighten. The tall narrow format accentuates the height of the tower...