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

Moths are the perfect, obliging models, who sleep during the day.  I take two or three into my studio to identify and draw, where they remai

My sketches and early drawing of my Woodcock print Early in December, on a cold and dreary afternoon, I left my studio to retreat to the...

On a day when we remember those who gave so much, a poem by Edward Thomas who was killed in action on the 9th April, 1917, by a shell...

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...

I might appear that I have been a little tardy with blog posts over the summer, but the truth is I have found writing rather difficult....

The happy discovery of a tawny owl family in my garden, made me long to have the opportunity to observe owls more closely, but I was very...

Those of you who follow me on Instagram and Twitter will know that I am rather partial to moths. The hot, still summer days of the past...

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...

I am thrilled that my linocut print of a grey heron, "River Man", will be exhibited at the Mall Galleries in London with The Royal...