Deb Garlick graduated in 1995 with a major in both Art History and Visual Arts. Her paintings are in private collections across Canada and the United States.

After completing university, Garlick moved to the UK for six years before returning to the West Coast of Canada to pursue her art career. She began as an abstract painter and moved into figurative, her paintings becoming influenced by artists such as Jean Paul Lemieux and Milton Avery. Her interest is creating a stillness around moments of flux, realization and reflection.

Garlick paints from her studio in Victoria, BC.

Statement

Space and stillness. I am interested in taking complex situations, experience, thoughts and memories, and bringing a peace to it. By juxtaposing the complex with a calm through thought, humour, whimsy or just a need to place something outside of myself, painting is my route to perspective.

My art comes from my experience and my desire to create something in memory of a moment. It allows me to share and be private at the same time. It represents an intimate perspective, and handling, of a life.

I find peace in open spaces, subdued colour, distilling more into less. It brings me to a calm, still, quiet, open and airy place and that's what I paint about - complexity into distilled spaces.

Photography

Coming from an intrepid family of travellers, Deb has spent a great deal of time adventuring worldwide from caving in Belize, diving in Thailand, sailing the Mediterranean to hiking the Cinque Terra in Italy. Along the way, she discovered a passion for photography and just likes to go exploring and find the perfect atmospheric representation of her experience.

Her photography has been published for retail and is in print worldwide.

Bali

Artist Photograph Credit: Rebecca Wellman Photography