About

Deborah Ann Graham is a painter based in Bollington, Cheshire.

Her painting style is gestural and abstract yet full of objects, using layered applications of oil paint, oils sticks and other drawing media often removing and repainting areas time over allowing her content to slip in and out of ambiguity. Within this push and pull, doing and undoing she explores themes of seasonality, aging and the fragments left in the wake of passing time.

Deborah was educated in Carlisle, where she attended the Cumbria Collage of Art and Design, from there moving to Nottingham to do a BA (hon) Degree in Fine Art at Trent Polytechnic, graduating 1987.

She was part of the 23/24 Turps Art School correspondence course cohort and is currently in her final year studying for her MA in Fine Art at Manchester School of Art (MMU).

She has exhibited widely in group and solo shows and was selected for the RA Summer Exhibition 2024 and shortlisted for the RA Summer Exhibition, Jacksons Art Prize, the VAA Open, and the Fronteer Gallery Judges choice award 2025. Her work is held by collectors locally and internationally.

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