Deborah Gillis

My name is Deborah Gillis and I’m a painter. I work primarily in oil on larger canvases or wood panels. I am originally from Portland Oregon but now work primarily at my studio in Tucson, in the Steinfeld Warehouse Gallery and Studios. My paintings are a cross between abstraction and representation of the natural world I see around me. For the last ten years, prior to the onset of the COVID pandemic my work was mostly abstract in nature but in the last year I have started a new body of work that combines abstraction with representation in a mixed collage of images. In this new work I am attempting to capture a feeling of time and place.