Deborah Vass

I have always loved looking at other’s sketchbooks. One of my earliest art memories is seeing a page of Samuel Palmer’s sketchbook in my loc

The following article appeared on Painters Online, the online edition of "The Artist" magazine and thought it might be useful for someone...

To know fully even one field or one land is a lifetime's experience. In the world of poetic experience it is depth that counts, not...

To see a World in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour. Winter...

Woods I part the out thrusting branches and come in beneath the blessed and the blessing trees. Though I am silent there is singing...

I love winter, but this January has been a particularly dark, damp and dreich month and I have found myself looking for signs of spring...

I suppose it was inevitable that I should follow on from making prints of birds to making pictures of trees. Although they have featured...

I have always been rather reluctant to draw or paint in public. I am happy enough in my studio, or in a discreet place, away from view,...