Deborah French Artist

Having great fun playing around with the engineering of bird baths. This is a proto type. So when the bath fills up in our wet winter we...

Last week at an exhibition opening the newspaper did a story on the dogs. Nice to have the publicity but I wish they would check details bef...

Well, the dogs are done and dusted and in Pukeariki Museum. Great opening and such a good show. So proud to be a part of it.  I feel like ...

I supply my work to Kina. This is a lovely art and design store in New Plymouth. Read more by clicking the link below....

A print from a recent series. What more can I say? Anyone with children will get it. I really like drawing into the ink ...

Open studio on the last two weekends. Always an interesting experience to get feedback and talk to people. This year I wo...

Her name is 'Effervescence.' Like Soda...and raspberry pop. All bubbles. Exciting at first...watch out how much you have though...co...

I have been making these little bowls. Somewhere...somehow I heard a story about people who carried begging bowls or gave...

Another project that was great fun. I get a great sense of satisfaction when I drive by and know the background to...

I had great fun doing this project with some students at school. They were so much more inventive than me....makin...

A fellow artist and I are working together on a quirky bit of fun. It is a collaborative project called the 'running people'.....sor...

Having a bit of fun with print making again. Hmmm faces......need to let them go... BUT also they tell so much and keep...

Last weekend I went to a workshop about making large old style portrait sculpture. I made a really large head...which i...

Recently I found lots of old wooden villa light fittings. Layers and layers of lead  paint. So cool. I just got anot...

Over the last month we have had these albino hedgehogs wandering over the farm. I do worry that they will ...

Down in the studio 'the colony' continues to grow. Piles and piles of soft toys that need love and a new lease of life and identity....

Our place is being over run by half crazed little bunnies....kind of cute....but not....did some more prints last weekend around crazy bu...

The fact my horse does not like reflections (or the 'play of light' on water) has got me thinking more about reflections and how th...

Recently I have been breeding old fashioned chooks. Silver Spangled hamburgs and Pekins. I did have romantic notions about all the chickens...

Recently we visited Te Papa with my Mum. I really got into the crazy displays. The way we categorize and arrange items i...

The fascination with rescuing old toys from the hospice and 're inventing' them continues. For some I paint faces on canvas and oth...

We are plagued by bunnies on our rural road. We often comment about how they are suicidal! When a car comes up the road,...

For the last year or so I have had the loan of a beautiful American Conrad press. Unfortunately I have to return it soon, so have been havin...

Lately the dogs have been getting larger and larger. The problem with this is the fitting them in the kiln around other work! I have decide...

Some time ago I decided to make 100 bowls of about the same size. Some of them are in earlier posts. I have difficulty with repetitive task...

I have been making a new series of prints around fish and beetles and other creatures. Some I have been hand coloring later.

I have had a great time lately reworking prints...adding bits and pieces to the print..hand and machine sewing on them..collaging old docum...