I am currently working towards a solo show at Trevelyan College, Durham University. I am delighted to be returning to this venue, having had an early career show at the college in 1997.

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Statement for Trevelyan College Show:

Debbie studied painting at York and Bretton Hall College, Wakefield graduating with first class honours in 1995.

In 1996 she came to Durham taking up a residency at St Cuthbert’s where she encountered the landscape of the Durham Dales for the first time. After a period spent moving around the country Debbie has returned to live in North Yorkshire where in 2005 she established the Lund Gallery near York which she now runs with her husband Steve.

Exhibitions include: The Leith Gallery, Edinburgh, Leeds Art Fair, The Walker Gallery, Harrogate, Trevelyan College, Durham University, Grey College, Durham University, The Quaker Gallery London (Henry Dyson) Gallery Topp, Derbyshire and The Chatton Gallery Northumberland.

For this exhibition at Trevelyan College I was keen to celebrate the landscapes which for me have been responsible for my development as a painter. It has been the landscape of the north Pennines, in particular around Weardale which has had the most significant impact on me as a painter. I was and still am struck by the powerful underlying structure of the Pennine hills which bear the intricate marks and signs of the various activities which they support. From hill farming, mining, quarrying and grouse shooting the landscape offers up a rich variety of marks and for me to decipher. Walls, fences, drainage ditches, sheep tracks, quarry roads, field shapes and enclosures all the results of a complex and hardworking landscape.

At present my work is divided loosely into figurative and abstract paintings and drawings. The more figurative works revel in the atmospheric qualities of the landscape and are mainly executed in water based mixed media which affords a relative amount of immediacy.

The more abstract pieces take the form of smaller scale drawings and groups of small abstract paintings. In these smaller and intimate pieces I have focussed more on my subjective response to the memory and records of these familiar places to the extent that these landscapes become more ‘inner landscapes’.

I have also included a few pieces of the Northumberland coastline also a favourite and often revisited location for work.

Debbie Loane – July 2008

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A selection of my work is always available to view at Lund Gallery, where I occupy an adjacent studio.

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