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International Year of planetearth 2008 Mosaic Exhibition - Artists Directory

Debbie Howard - England - Contact Details : debbie@fyfield.uk.net


Life Support System (Soil)	Life Support System (Soil)	Life Support System (Soil)

Artist Statement

In this work I really wanted to capture the beauty and wonder of planet earth as experienced from my home in the Oxfordshire countryside.
The upper section depicts the dominant features of the landscape – clear blue skies, large trees, bird life and lots of mole hills! It is a privilege to be a part of this.
What goes on below ground is vital to maintaining the picture above. The vibrant soil creatures embody the energy available below the surface, their ant-like bodies convey the constant activity of an underground world. There is root support for the structures that burst through the surface, and sanctuary for those that remain below. In the different colours and textures I have tried to capture but a hint of the vast mineral deposits and life giving nutrients available in the soil.


Sea Greens - 1to 4 (Ocean)	Sea Greens - 5 to 8 (Ocean)

Artist Statement

Travelling by helicopter to the Scilly Isles, there wasn’t much to look at except the surface of the sea.

I tried to look for things that weren’t there, like whales, seagulls, boats & swimmers. What I did see was a never-ending, always changing pattern.

In Penzance I talked to a retired trawlerman, now a painter of massive canvasses of sea! I realised there was more to sea than a blue wash.

I forgot about sea until we had a large pond built into the back garden, wind on water produced even more patterns.

My head stores these little images until the right moment comes along.

The resulting pebble mosaic sea was achieved with many hours of sorting green stones into different shades and hues.

Landslide (Deep Earth)

Artist Statement

My way in mosaic art is situated in the space, between the NATURE and the GEOMETRY.

That's why, the exposition of PLANET EAERTH gave me the spontaneous desire to participate in it.

So I wont to take part with a small and humble, but typical for my artistic researches work. In it, the NATURE is the material itself-sea stones, but the GEOMETRY comes from the impression of a joke of puzzles, parketing the endless plane.

The little pieces of glass gives an impulse of life, and dynamic surprises of the mosaic.

The impression is for a LANDSLIDE of a stone structure, for a movement of the DEEP EARTH !

Artist Statement

My initial reaction to the themes’ was to use natural materials. However as I researched, my attention was drawn to the power of electricity, Megacities and issues surrounding both.

Mosaic (1): ‘Lightening over city’. Lightening (electrical charge) can cut off the electricity power in a city. There is discussion about whether we can measure global warming by how much lightening we get, as the climate warms generating more storms’.

Mosaic (2): ‘Wind Turbine & City’. Generating electricity - electricity consumption.

Mosaic (3): ‘Megacity Rising’. I had an image in my head of a city rising up out of rubble. It needing power: electrical, financial and the challenge of sustainability.


Megacity Rising	Lightening Over City	Wind Turbine