The light shimmering through the rose is your soul being reflected back to you.
Deborah’s approach to “the light of the soul” series is to immerse us in nature’s incredible sense of colour, design and architecture.
Fascinated as a teenager with the rules of The Golden Section, she leads us back to our roots in mother nature to restore our sense of balance and the realisation that nature has the ultimate design and order of things. Surrounded as we are by a barrage of visual kitsch and clutter, Deborah likes to pare back the layers of the landscape to reveal the essence and soul of our real world. She invites the viewer to look at her images of every day roses, so often taken for granted as token gestures of everyday celebrations, for their extraordinary beauty, purity of design and spiritual dimension. These roses are just as Deborah found them in the Parnell Rose Garden.
In capturing them, they have had a profound healing effect that has helped her with the grief of loosing her mother. This series is dedicated to her mother who in her later life, whilst blind and in a wheel chair, loved to come to this garden and “smell the roses”.
Unashamedly intending to envelop us in the life force and energy of flowers, Deborah uses the power of the light boxes to mimic the rays of the sun, which combined with her back lit images, bring the magic of the outdoors indoors. She blends the borders of realism and abstraction, of painting and photography, combining techniques and forms of the material world, to unite us in the sheer joy of the natural world.
