Debbie Wendt  Award-Winning Painter/Artist​

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Debbie Wendt Painter/Artist​

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Debbie Wendt is a painter working predominately in oils or acrylic. At 25, she realized she had artistic ability and in 1997 she obtained a BA Honors degree in Community Art with Sociology at Roehampton University in London. The final year entailed a public commission which resulted in four oil paintings entitled ‘The Four Seasons’, which hangs in Kingston hospital in London.

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In the past thirty years Debbie has had a few breaks from art, but became a selling artist in 2003 when the owner of Chantry’s Gallery in Ipswich, Bob Zablok sold Debbie’s first painting. In 2014, Debbie came second in a competition to design a public commission for a Health and Community Centre in her old home town of Sudbury.  A print of the four paneled collage entitled Visions of Sudbury has been permanently installed there and she received an award from the NHS West Suffolk Clinical Commission group. 

After living most of her life in Sudbury, Suffolk, Debbie moved to Ipswich, where she was inspired to paint her local Marina large on large scale canvases, and has sold consistently with MF Gallery, owner Owen Berry.  Local exhibitions of Debbie’s include a joint exhibition, ‘Wendt on Water’ at the Town Hall with her brother and fellow artist Richard Wendt.

Debbie has been in a period of experimentation over the past seven years, developing on her illustrative , figurative work using paint drawn on by the opposite end of the paint brush or using biro or paint in an energetic form, tapping into the unconscious level of visual memory to portray atmosphere or gesture in line and light, over line and form. Much of this work uses the subject of dance, or observations from nature or recently illustrations from the imagination and  using alternative tools such as table knifes to oil paint with. The accumulation of this work is her Universal Series, paintings exploring a different way to show perspective to show distance and space, paintings which don't hide the fact about the limits of portraying a 3D reality onto a 2D surface, a self awareness which includes the viewer into the space of the painting

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Debbie is related to Lionel Wendt, the most famous artist to come from Sri Lanka. He was leader of the 42 Group in the 1940’s and has an art centre in the capital Colombo named after him. Lionel Wendt is exhibited alongside such greats as Picasso, Dali and Matisse at the Tate.

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