Your Big Heart's Gonna Break Your Little Body

Fine art giclée print on 308gsm Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Limited edition of 150.

• Museum-quality inks and paper
• Archival lifespan of up to 200 years
• Includes a certificate of authenticity
• Your purchase directly supports the artist

Artist's Statement

My compositions, sometimes a jumble of informal abstraction and realistic representation, portray, often strong, yet vulnerable, models, with a particular intimacy. My practice is drawing based and the paintings are created using oil and mixed media.

A common thread runs throughout my work; an attraction to the often unseen and unnoticed. Unnoticed moments that can either flash or languidly pass before us. Unseen characters that inhabit the spaces and worlds between us. Unnoticed parts of ourselves. These thoughtful pauses occur throughout any average day and often go unnoticed. They lead to observations, realisations or just an appreciation of the moment itself.

The driving force behind all of my work is the persistent effort to find better techniques, through painting and all its possibilities, to convey feelings of fragility, vulnerability and empathy.

Biography

Debbie Chapman is a contemporary artist based in West Dublin, working from her studio beside the Phoenix Park, in Chapelizod. She exhibits internationally and has work in public, corporate and personal collections including commissioned pieces for Waterford General Hospital and The Hermitage Medical Clinic in Dublin. Just recently, Debbie exhibited with Mason, Hayes & Curran and created a painting onstage during the Druid Theatre Production 'Boland' that was broadcast around the world.

She creates a broad range of contemporary and realistic artwork remaining fluid and versatile in approach, focusing on portraiture and the model, unnoticed parts of ourselves and simple, yet often unseen, observations of the world around her.