Deborah Bell

Deborah Margaret Bell was born in 1957 in Johannesburg. She studied at the University of the Witwatersrand gaining
a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1977 and a Honours in 1978. Between 1981 and 1985 under the tutelage of Robert Hodgins, Giuseppe Cattaneo, Paul Stopforth, Professor Alan Crump and Terry King.  Finally obtaining her Masters in 1985.

She was a founder member of Possession Arts. Between 1983 and 1985 she was a part-time lecturer in the Department
of Architecture at the University of the Witwatersrand. In 1985 she was a part-time lecturer at the University of South Africa, taking a post as a full-time lecturer between 1986 and 1987. In 1986 she spent two months
 in Cit Internationale des Arts, in Paris.

She had two solo exhibitions in the Market Gallery Johannesburg the first of which was held in 1982. Since 1983
she has participated in many group exhibitions throughout South Africa. In 1985 she participated in the Cape Town Triennial. In 1986 she held a joint exhibition with Sybille Nagel, Johann Moolmann and Keith Dietrich. In 1987 she participated
in an exhibition of drypoint etchings entitled "The Hogarth Series", with Robert Hodgins and William Kentridge
that toured South Africa.

She has been represented by the Durban Art Gallery, the Johannesburg Art Gallery, the SA National Gallery in Cape Town,
the Tatham Art Gallery in Pietermaritzburg, the University of Natal, the University of South Africa
and the University of the Witwatersrand.

Text - David Krut, Images by KBM and David Krut Projects

Available works

Vanity II 2006, Drypoint, 640mm x 900mm

Oracle 2008, Drypoint and Spitbite Aquatint, 900mm x 730mm

Nature Morte 2008, Drypoint, 900mm x 727mm

Massif 2010, Drypoint with handpainting, 900mm x 803mm

Breath, Drypoint & softground, spitbite aquatint etching hand coloured,  720mm x 545mm

Embody me.                                                                                     Frail crown.

Both drypoint & softground etching on Hahnemuhle and Gampi,  470mm x 370mm

Limits of your longing, Drypoint & softground etching on Hahnemuhle and Gampi,  470mm x 370mm

Sketchbook I, Drypoint & softground etching on Hahnemuhle and Gampi,  470mm x 370mm

Sketchbook I, Drypoint & softground etching on Hahnemuhle and Gampi,  470mm x 370mm

Sketchbook III, Drypoint & softground etching on Hahnemuhle and Gampi,  470mm x 370mm

Sketchbook I, Drypoint & softground etching on Hahnemuhle and Gampi,  470mm x 370mm

Sketchbook V, Drypoint & softground etching on Hahnemuhle and Gampi,  470mm x 370mm

Sketchbook VI, Drypoint & softground etching on Hahnemuhle and Gampi,  470mm x 370mm

You again a stranger, Drypoint & softground etching on Hahnemuhle and Gampi,  428mm x 550mm

                         Annunciation I                                          Annunciation II                                              Annunciation III
                                                                      Drypoint and chine colle  378mm x 498mm

Reveal                                                                                                    Premise
Dry point and spit bite  400mm x 460mm                                           Dry point,roulette spit bite on Chine Colle  
                                                                                                                400mm x 460mm

Reveal II, Drypoint,  470mm x 370mm

Reveal III, Drypoint,  470mm x 370mm

White Lion, Drypoint  640mm x 900mm

Elegy, Drypoint.

Parsifal II, Spitbite aquatint and drypoint, 1205mm x 915mm

Parsifal III, Spitbite Aquatint & Drypoint, 1205mm x 915mm

ARCHIVED works

I Have Hymns You Haven't Heard, Lithograph, 2017 475mm x 370mm

White Lion, Drypoint  640mm x 900mm