BIO
Deborah Drummond is a Boston area artist with an illustration and design background. Her work is primarily focused on non-objective abstraction in acrylic, collage and mono printing. Her work is in private and corporate collections. She shares her approach teaching workshops in the NE area.
STATEMENT
My primary focus in my art is exploring structurally designed interplay of elements with a particular focus on color relationships and how they create a conversation with each other and as a whole. Balancing control and embracing random happenings aids in maintaining an element of play in the process.
Casual daily observations such as reflections, low striking cast shadows, tossed clothing and the happenstance of random colors landing in my view provide constant inspiration. Mostly sketching loosely from the imagination brings forward the conceptual fodder which are the beginnings of a work..
Watching color relationships develop in a work is of endless fascination to me especially how the slightest change in hue or value can have an exhilarating affect creating calmness, coziness, contention or vibration.
Creating a little mystery is an enjoyable impulse in my process as I prefer to keep my imagery vague - familiar yet defying categorization and may involve removing hints of something too representational. The end work may recall a figure - or is it a house or a flower? I prefer the viewers to interpret what the work elicits for them and create their own unique story.