Deborah Hill

Deborah Hill is a professional artist using water soluble art materials, collage and found objects interchangeably in her work. She paints imaginative images that are distinct and inventive yet show an immediately recognizable style developed over years of experimenting. Her assemblage/bricolage sculpture reflects the same aesthetic and attention to subtle detail as her two-dimensional artwork.

Drawing influence from everyday events, nature and memory, she uses a narrative approach to her work expressing snippets of time or an emotion. The artist prefers to convey her art story with an interpretation rather than what is physically seen with the eye. Deborah uses acrylic paints, inks, watercolor and watercolor pencils to make her art. She uses several mixed media materials such as polymer resins and acrylic mediums for her collage work to build up texture on paper and canvas. The artist uses air dry epoxy clay to sculpt and build her assemblage three-dimensional pieces, often incorporating computer parts, old clocks and outmoded phones, typewriters and rusted bits and pieces she comes across. She says she’s especially fond of smushed tin cans and bottle caps.

In addition to making her own art in the studio Deborah teaches classes to adults and children from the ages of 9 and up. She says so many people helped her and encouraged her along her journey that she feels a need to pass it forward. “It’s inspiring to see what another person does with what I show them. I think I learn as much from the students as they learn from me. We all have our own personal way of expressing our feelings through art and that’s so enlightening. I hope I’m always able to approach art making with a student’s enthusiasm and remember that I can be shown a new way to see from the most unlikely person. The best artists I’ve ever known considered themselves perpetual pupils. I figure that’s a pretty good model to follow.”

Deborah is a native Alabamian, after having lived in Houston, Texas for over twenty years she has moved back to her home state. Her studio is in Fayette, Alabama. She is a member of the Sipsey Arts Alliance and looks forward to resuming activities with the organization post covid-19.

Visit Deborah's personal website: http://www.debhillart.com