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. She is also an internationally published photographer.

Garlick moved to Europe after graduating from university and did not paint for eight years. She returned to the West Coast to pursue her art career and has since built an extensive portfolio and reputation.

Garlick’s focus is on creating a calmness that belies the emotional complexity that underpins much of her work. Her figurative paintings are a personal reflection of her life, distilling frenetic thought processes into stillness. Her abstract works represent vulnerability and strength as emergence of light. Garlick is currently working on a different style of work influenced by the Italian and Northern European Renaissance.

Garlick paints from her studio in Victoria, BC. She is represented in Nashville, Tennessee and Sidney, BC.

When not painting, Garlick travels all over the world with her camera. Her photography is published internationally through Art In Motion Fine Art Publishers.

Statement

The process of painting, to me, is the challenge to create a calm expression of complex inspirations. The most critical part of this process is to not lose the magnitude of what is being explored but to somehow evolve it and contain it at the same time. To create a quiet, simple statement that retains all the depth and richness that is there.

Photography is a very similar process. It is the challenge of expressing the whole by concentrating on a small and integral part. To simplify, but capture what lies beneath. The distillation of the enormous and complex into stillness.