Deirdre is a Hertfordshire based painter and printmaker but grew up in Ireland. Although her vision is rooted with the experience of growing up in Ireland, she is attuned to the narratives within the landscape. Her painting is a gradual build up of layers, scraping back and drawing into the work. She is not trying to paint a topographical likeness. Her aim is to convey an ephemeral quality, a sense of something partly seen or remembered. In this way and using these techniques She hopes to encourage the viewer to look close and discover images emerging, portraying hidden depths and complexities. Deirdre is suggesting what the place is like through superimpositions of memory and myth and through the elemental use of materials. Her work is usually on a small scale. The paintings are tile-like and incorporate media such as gold leaf, which gives the work a kind of preciousness, like contemporary illuminated manuscripts

Deirdre has works in Private Collections in UK, Ireland, France and the Netherlands and has been a Fellow of 'Digswell Arts Trust' from 2002 to the present day.

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Deirdre Shepherd