Landscape painter

Words By Mercedes Smith

Vibrant paintings inspired by the beautiful landscape of the South West, painted in a palette of gorgeous, dreamlike colours.

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If you are looking for something wonderfully uplifting in your life this spring, let us introduce you to the work of artist Debbie Lush. Debbie attended Harrow School of Art in London and went on to study illustration at the Royal College of Art. For the next two decades she worked as a freelance illustrator before turning her eye for visual storytelling and magical wonder to painting on canvas. 

Her brightly coloured landscapes are based on walks with her dog and her sketchbook along weather beaten coastal paths, past rural villages, beaches and harbour walls, beside streams and rivers, through glades and forests and over agricultural fields shaped by livestock and crop farming. 

Debbie Lush

Her latest collection, on show this May as part of Whitewater Contemporary’s Featured Artist series, takes us walking with the artist towards the West, mapping the beauty of the coast and countryside and capturing the inspirational colours and textures of landscape along the way. 

“The real landscape is a route to escape into” says Debbie, “a world of colour, composition and detail that I love getting lost in”. Back in her studio she translates her outdoor drawings into bright, illustrative paintings, heightening the beauty and colour of the landscape with a romantic sense of charm and joy. Her compositions are lively with a playful sense of perspective, simple but descriptive shapes and a wealth of dazzling colours, capturing the essence of the special landscape we enjoy here in Devon and Cornwall. Debbie Lush lives and works at her studio in rural East Devon.

See Debbie’s latest collection on show until 27th May at Whitewater Contemporary, The Parade, Polzeath, PL27 6SR, www.wwcg.co.uk