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Deborah Poynton SFP
Landscape Artist
B. England
(Member of the Society of Floral Painters)
Born and trained in the north of England, Deborah Poynton travelled
and worked in Europe and Africa before settling in Dorset. This
is where her artistic gift developed and much of her work was first
exhibited and sold.
Poynton has always enjoyed drawing and painting from a very young
age and obtained several prizes for artwork as a teenager.
Realising the inherent desire to be a creative artist, she enrolled
for night school where, under the patient tuition of Sam Rabin,
she learned how to criticise one’s own work constructively.
The dynamics of pictorial composition and simplification of forms
as taught by Robin Child, as well as the encouragement and advice
from Derek Gardener RSMA, are remembered with gratitude.
What Poyton finds most stimulating to paint are those fleeting
occasions when nature and the elements combine to form such an
impact of beauty, either the wide sweep of a tranquil river, or
an intimate close-up look at poppies among the corn stalks.
The mystical enchantment of bluebell woods is one of her favourite
subjects.
The Colomb Art Gallery currently has a number of original oil
paintings by Deborah Poynton |
