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Deborah Kaplan Evans believes art should evoke deeper emotional and intellectual responses rather than just enhance decor. By demanding more from herself and her viewers, her work captures the eye and invites extended engagement. She starts her creative process with mind mapping to establish a theme, such as "The Built Environment." Using collected images from various sources, she creates overlapping collages, which she then traces and paints. Her commitment to accuracy in color and detail adds depth to the storytelling inherent in her artwork.
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DEBORAH KAPLAN EVANS I have never been content to create work that merely pleases the eye or enhances the decor; nor do I want my work simply to mean something. I prefer to demand more from both my viewers and myself: I want to arrest the eye and hold it long enough to engage the viewer in an ongoing emotional and intellectual response.
DEBORAH KAPLAN EVANS • Working in her style: • Start with a mind map to create a theme eg: The Built Environment, Castles. Use the words from your mind map to research with, eg: turret, castles, knights, horses, armour, cannons, swords, shields, gates and draw bridges. • Cut out the pictures you collect. • Make a collage overlapping the images. • Trace the collage, paint your copy.
DEBORAH KAPLAN EVANS • To create her pictures she uses images she has collected from photographs, magazines, and collages them together in a theme. She then traces her collage and paints from the drawing making sure she copies the colours and images accurately.