Hi I’m Debbie Kavanagh an artist and designer based in Glenarm. I’m inspired by what I see around me, especially the natural world and I love to use rich and vibrant colours in my work.
Although each piece is put together in a different way, they all start off with a drawing or painting and end with this being scanned into my computer and digitally manipulated, in order to produce the final piece. Sometimes, the final piece is very similar to my painting but sometimes I paint all or some of the elements separately and then place them together digitally. Most of the time, it’s somewhere in between. I love working in this way because it gives me the freedom to experiment with how my work looks at different stages or to make variations, for example to use different background colours or textures. I print all my work myself using a professional printer and archival quality ink and paper, so that I can be sure that each print is something that I can be really proud of.