Artist Debs Last lives and works in the Cotswolds. She works directly from life and from memory, creating light-filled work relating to the landscape and the connections we make with it as humans. In 2020, she graduated with an MA in Contemporary Art Practice from Plymouth University. She was long-listed for the Jackson’s Painting Prize, 2021 and 2022. She was Artist in Residence at the National Trust’s Bucks Mills Artist Cabin in August 2022 and the inaugural visual artist in residence for Appledore Book Festival in September 2022. She has been featured in Devon Life Magazine, on BBC Spotlight, and as a regular guest on BBC Radio Devon.

She completed an en plein air project to paint the landscape outside and from life every day of 2022. This project was highly collaborative, encouraging others to be in the landscape and to paint there.

Her move to North Devon at the end of 2016 enabled her to take her work in a new direction, joining the MA programme at Plymouth University. Her MA work explored the meanings of motherhood, family, faith, separation, and storytelling during a global pandemic. The last few years have been about establishing her current practice while balancing teaching a small number of art classes. Her en plein air practice has become like a form of contemplation and meditation that informs her studio work.

Now living near Chipping Norton in the Cotswolds, she continues to explore the beauty of the landscape, with current work focusing on the stories we form with nature in the early hours and at night, often incorporating bonfires and moonlight.

Her work is held in private collections throughout the UK and abroad. She also offers one-to-one support and coaching for emerging artists, along with workshops and wellbeing days for individuals, groups, and workplaces.

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