Deborah Last6 days ago2 minNearly half way through the year!It’s hard to believe but today is the summer solstice and I’m 172 days into this journey. On Sunday I could have packed it in; I’m not...
Deborah LastMay 271 minPainting at THE wedding!It’s hard to believe that two weeks have passed already since our daughter’s wedding. It was such a perfect day. though people have been...
Deborah LastApr 132 minArtist in residencies for 2022This year I have three artist in residencies. I can finally announce that I am artist in residence for the Appledore Book Festival in...
Deborah LastMar 241 minLong-listed for the Jackson’s Painting Prize 2022This is one of the paintings from February this year, part of the 365 daily painting challenge I have set myself. I was so thrilled to...
Deborah LastMar 122 minHitting the wall!One of the things people keep asking about the 365 project is how do you keep going. it’s important to acknowledged that some days it’s...
Deborah LastFeb 251 minTraveling with my paint kit!Today is the first time I am going away without the car and still needing to have my paining kit and a warm painting clothes with me. I...
Deborah LastJan 311 minPaint Out at the Pier HouseIt was so good to be be at the Pier House celebrating the first month being completed. the weather wasn't the best but mostly because it...
Deborah LastJan 11 minNew Year, New Challenge! Today the 365 days of en plein air daily painting started, one down 364 to go! I was so good an important to do the first day with...
Deborah LastMay 6, 20211 minGatheredThis large piece on board is beginning to take shape. It has begun to say what I want it to. Most importantly I am investigating the...
Deborah LastMay 5, 20211 minPandemic Mothering: Adding colour and looking for simplicity. I have begun to translate the drawn pieces onto the boards. There is something I like very much about the works on paper but the...
Deborah LastApr 3, 20211 minSketching the distance between us..It has been so hard not to have seen the children for so long. Not seen at Christmas and hardly seen over the last year. Though we have...
Deborah LastMar 25, 20211 minBeing Long-listed for the Jackson's Painting Prize 2021. I'm really pleased to announce that I have been long listed for the Jackson's Painting Prize 2021. This is Meldon Quarry pained during...
Deborah LastMar 24, 20211 minTransferring the pandemic mothering drawings on to boards. Last year as we worked on the show for Kast Gallery in Plymouth, testing our work for the MA show, one of the things that proved...
Deborah LastMar 22, 20211 minPandemic mothering.It has been hard to be apart from the children. To only be able to zoom or messenger call. These paintings have been made as a result of...
Deborah LastMar 13, 20211 minPandemic SketchbookThis pandemic time has not been so hard for us in many ways. We are tucked away in the South West corner of the country in North Devon....
Deborah LastFeb 2, 20211 minBringing the landscape and the figures together...For as long as I've been drawing and painting, which I guess is since I was 4, my practice has been about stories and landscapes. My...
Deborah LastFeb 1, 20211 minEnding daily painting in 3rd LockdownHaving painted every day of the year until the 30th January, it just became too cold to go out. Wet and windy and unpleasant. hard to...
Deborah LastJan 26, 20211 minThe Dilema of Daily Painting As third lockdown began I have already started the year by beginning a new daily painting project. getting out every day and connecting...
Deborah LastNov 28, 20201 minPainting in lockdownI have decided that I will set myself a challenge in the second lockdown and paint outside everyday that it lasts... not as big a...
Deborah LastOct 6, 20201 minCousins..I have been working from some photographs sent by two pregnant cousins who were not able to be together whilst they were pregnant over...