PAINTING, PRINTMAKING,colour, gestural painting, painting as meditation, expanded field painting, sense of time and place, ecology, celebration, mutability, renewal, vernacular, process, textiles, clothes, between abstraction+figuration, joy
Necklace 2023 Acrylic on canvas
Chromarimba monoprints: Draped, Hinged, Pinned Up, Doubled Back, Pinned Together, Flicked Up, Folded and Pinned, Turned Over. Zigzagged, Swung Round, Corkscrewed, Flipped
DEBBY AKAM- MONOPRINTS
Debby's prints are intuitive investigations of colour, gestural mark- making and light, often inspired by her immediate surroundings including her garden, in Cumbria, and travelling. The group of prints called Chromarimba relate to an artwork Debby made with Gary Power for Suthra 2024, a residency and exhibition at Tasara Centre for the Arts in Kerala, India in February. Using local brightly coloured fabric, the work alluded to Indian textiles and fashions, and was designed to focus attention on the natural environment of the site, changing constantly with the breeze and position of the sun. It was re -configured several times during the exhibition in India, and each time, Debby made a series of paintings which she took as the starting point for the monoprints shown here at Printfest. Translating the paintings into a new form through the process of printmaking allowed a further layer of reflection on this sequence of images.
2024
Suthra International Residency and Expo, Tasara Centre for the Arts, Kerala India 1- 28th February
Sockbridge and Tirril Open Studios, Ullswater, Cumbria
Printfest Ulverston
Acts of Seeing Vallum Gallery, Carlisle 2025
2023
Tasara Center for the Arts, Beypore, Kerala artist's residency,1 - 28 February
Northern Print, Stepney Bank, Newcastle upon Tyne One and Another 28 April - 24 June 12 - 4pm
Sockbridge and Tirril Open Studios, Ullswater, Cumbria 20 - 28 May
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 13 June - 20 August 2023
Farfield Mill, Sedburgh, Cumbria LA10 5LW July 5 10.30am - October1 4.00pm.Thinking in Colour and Form Part 2: Debby Akam Paintings, Gary Power Tintotem Parade
