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Artist Profiles » Deborah Illingworth
 Deborah loved art at school and after doing a B.A. at Auckland University in Prehistoric Anthropology and Ancient History, she realised the desperate need to do something artistic. Two years later she emerged from AUT (1985) with a cerificate in Graphic Design.
Ten successful years followed in advertising before escaping to the country to pursue a more relaxed lifestyle to raise her little boy.
She started exploring the world of fine art and six years ago began experimenting with chalk pastel. "I like the immediacy and forgiving nature of the medium. I love painting people with fabrics and patterns, the more complicated the better. In my works the background is as important as the foreground."
"I love the works of the impressionist Manet, and post-impressionists Gaugain, Van Gough, Klimt, and Maurice Denis, especially for their wonderful and unexpected use of colour. I see myself as a contemporary post-impressionist rather than a realist."
In 1990 Deborah entered the local artists section of the Franklin Art Awards, won that and have done every year since. In 2001 she won the North Shore Art Awards. Judge Stanley Palmer described her entry, Katarina as head and shoulders above the other selected works.
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