Deborah Colman Designs

24/06/2026

22/06/2026

22/06/2026

New Work Everyday Sunshine group Summer Exhibition opening Thursday. My abstract collages inspired by summertime in London

22/06/2026

My Printed Collage “Splintered Sunlight” is in a group show Everyday Sunshine this week. So looking forward to seeing the other work on Thursday at the opening

04/02/2026

Following on from the photos I showed in my last post I made a mono print of one of them using a gel plate. What do you think?
It took a LOT of tries to get it to work but finally peeled off this nice one which I think has a nice feel. I’m trialing the process so I can layer fragments of my photos in my collages.
I have to thank & her YouTube videos for finally telling me how to prepare the image 🙏

19/06/2025

What I wish I’d brought with me…
While Iran & Israel are at war, & I’m not using this feed to make political statements but I’m posting this sketch of a beautiful traditional Persian instrument called a Tar because I heard about it for the first time yesterday when, as part of the What I Brought With Me Project, I spent a wonderful time in the company of 8 members of a book club for refugees. I asked everyone to write about a personal object that they wish they had brought from their homeland. Mia from Iran wrote the most beautiful piece about this instrument which she played as a child but was too shy to play for her father until it was too late. I’m hoping that with Mia’s permission I might be able to share some more of what she wrote, but for now, here’s my sketch of what I think from her description a Tar looks like.