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Deborah Bell

By What Light Do We Really See?, 2012-2014

Oil on paper.

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Deborah Bell - Dreaming of Cuba

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Waiting for the Miracle to Come – Joan of Arc by Deborah Bell

This word had Merlin said from of old:— That out of the Oak Tree Shade In the day of France's direst dule, God's hand should send a Maid. And where Domremy, by Burgundy, Sits crowned with its oakenshaw, Even there Joan d'Arc, the Maid of God's Ark, The light of the day first saw.

Where spirits go, what man may know? Yet this may of man be said:— That, when Time is o'er and all hath sufficed, Shall the world's chief Christ-fire rise to Christ From the ashes of Joan the Maid.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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Deborah Bell

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This extremely talented artist is a painter, graphic artist (dry point etchings) and a sculptor. Deborah Bell was born in 1957 in Johannesburg, SA and today her eminently recognizable art is produced in her studio in the Magaliesburg and at David Krut Workshops.

She is fascinated by ancient civilizations and their excavated artifacts, often incorporating totemic images into her sculptural pieces. They are still and silent, imbued with a spiritual and ritual function they command a presence.

In her recent work, human figures on a journey are accompanied by animal and mythical beasts like lions and dogs, wolves and horses. Transportation is by way of boat and chariots.

"The creative act is actually a means of bringing something into the world - of summoning something." Deborah Bel

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