Deborah Lougheed Sinclair

BFA, ASA, SCA

Deborah is a graduate of Queen’s University and a Banff Centre alumnus. She has been member of the Alberta Society of Artists since 1985 and Society of Canadian Artists since 2018. She has exhibited nationally and internationally for over forty years. Her paintings can be found in over fifty corporate and public collections internationally. Images of Deborah’s paintings can be found in several books and numerous art catalogues. She is currently represented by the Roberts Gallery in Toronto.

Deborah has moved and travelled from coast-to-coast across Canada and the United States. She is the descendant of many generations of Canadian pioneers and early Hudson Bay employees. Two family lines are part of the Southern Alberta Old Timers Association. The historic family cottage in Banff was a very important influence. It is there where she first learned to see the changing light and patterns on lakes and towering mountain peaks. The Canadian landscape is vital to her art, and her artistic home is the Canadian Rockies.

Her acrylic paintings are a collection of elements that endeavour to convey a fleeting and varied visual experience. She is interested in the more abstract qualities of light, cloud, and shadow juxtaposed against the permanence of the land. Subtle layers of colour play an important role. Her original digital art pieces reflect similar interests using a variety of digital techniques. The final images include photographs, layers, masks, painting, erasing, and blending to achieve the unique effects on archival paper and/or metal.

Selected Exhibitions:

SCA “2019 Elected Juried Members Exhibition, Montreal, Quebec

“Society of Canadian Artists”, Papermill Gallery, Toronto, ON, 2019

“Life Still”, Alberta Trex Program, 2019-2021

“Society of Canadian Artists”, Papermill Gallery, Toronto, ON, 2019

“Life Still”, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Travelling Exhibition Program 2019-2021

“ The Artist’s Lens” Art Point Gallery, Calgary, Alberta wide Exposure Festival 2013 – 2019

“Oh, Canada”, Roberts Gallery, Toronto, ON, 2016

“Celebrating Alberta”, Alberta Society of Artists – Open Juried Travelling Exhibition in multiple Alberta and US Public Galleries 2012-2014

“The Forest Show”, Trex (Traveling Exhibition Program) Government of Alberta, 2011-2014

“Hallmark Canada Fine Art Collection”, Riverbrink Art Museum, Niagara on the Lake, Ontario, 2010

“Planet Earth Exhibition”, Leighton Art Centre, Calgary, Alberta, 2009 and TREX (Traveling Exhibition Program) Government of Alberta travelling exhibition from 2009-2012 multiple Alberta sites

“The Mountaineer and the Artist”, Alpine Club of Canada Centennial, Whyte Museum Banff, Alberta, 2006-2007

Selected Publications

“Vistas of the West: Poems and Visuals of Nature” Editors/Curators: Larry Kapustka, Susan Kristoferson, Lorene Shyba, Foreword by Doris Daley, UpRoute, Durvile Publications, Calgary, AB, 2019.

“Art Inspired by the Canadian Rockies, Purcell Mountains and Selkirk Mountains 1809-2012” Nancy Townshend, Bayeax Arts, Inc., Calgary, 2012, pg. 103.

“Peaks of the Canadian Rockies”, Kathryn Manry, Blurb, 2011.

“The Mountaineer and the Artist”, the Alpine Club of Canada Centennial, The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, McAra Printing, 2006.

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