Deb L Bunker

Having grown up in rural mid Wales and having received what I consider ‘a proper country upbringing,’ I am passionate about the environment and am witnessing huge changes in the habitats so close to my heart. One of my chief concerns is how very detached from nature our modern world seems to be and how unaware of its’ importance for our future survival. My work has taken a different turn from merely painting pretty landscapes or illustrating natural history books to trying to convey a more emotional response via the means of paint, sculpture or performance activism.

Integral to my work are studies in the Waterhole Ritual method of horsemanship - a method involving daily meditation with my horses and working with body language and energy that ultimately achieves ‘the dance’ of both horse and human moving as one. I considers this and my long daily walks communing in nature, watching and listening closely to all around me, as much a part of my practice as the act of painting or making.

I have been been working with the environmental performance activism group, the Red Rebels, since 2019, most recently on the Save the Wye pilgrimage and and was recently involved in a film making project at Tintern Abbey with the Writers Rebellion. I regularly donate artwork to help promote the cause of environmental organisations and groups.