Notes

Deborah Bell’s imagery is simple, stark, symbolic – grounded, silent, still and poised.

In her iconography she draws from a range of cultures (including African, Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, early Christian and European) and a range of philosophies (especially the Buddhist preoccupation with stillness and the shedding of attachment and the ego) and psychologies (more Jung than Freud) – but her work digs deeper, arriving finally out of an internal and personal place that Bell occupies in the world as an artist, a woman and an explorer.¹

1. Everard Read Gallery Cape Town. (2018) Deborah Bell, Biography [Online] Available: https://www.everard-read-capetown.co.za/ artist/DEBORAH_BELL/biography/ [7 December 2018].