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Fiber artist, Deborah Sharpe-Lunstead, creates her landscape paintings using pigmented, finely beaten paper pulp applied to newly formed wet sheets of handmade paper. When a sheet of paper dries, the painting is embedded in the paper.
American-born Deborah Sharpe-Lunstead trained as a classical musician (Early music and Viola da Gamba), and later became a professional fiber artist (a weaver, feltmaker, and papermaker). She was self-taught as a papermaker, experimenting with plant papers from her gardens in Bangladesh, Washington, DC, and Malaysia. She taught papermaking workshops for children and teachers in Washington, DC, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Kuala Lumpur and Kuching, Malaysia, and Colombo, Sri Lanka. In 2002, she had the opportunity to study more advanced papermaking techniques with Lynn Sures at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC. In 2002 one of her 3D paper sculptures was selected to tour the US a part of the 2nd Annual Collegiate Handmade Paper Art Show.
Although she had been a fiber artist for many years, Deborah only began to study drawing in 2004, while living in Sri Lanka where she studied with Sri Lankan artist, Anoma Wijewardene, until 2006. She participated in her first group show in June 2006 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, at the American Ambassador’s Residence. Upon returning to Washington, DC in 2007, she took classes at The Art League in Alexandria, VA, where she studied gesture figure drawing and painting with Avis Flemming and Jackie Saunders, and watercolor with Deborah Ellis. Combining her new understanding of painting with the paper art techniques she had learned from Lynn Sures, she began to find her artistic voice using paper pulp as the medium for her painted images.
Deborah now lives in Middlebury, Vermont, where she is actively exploring the world of pigment and paper and fiber, creating exciting paintings of the landscapes of Vermont and the larger world where she has lived over the past twenty-five years.
American-born Deborah Sharpe-Lunstead trained as a classical musician (Early music and Viola da Gamba), and later became a professional fiber artist (a weaver, feltmaker, and papermaker). She was self-taught as a papermaker, experimenting with plant papers from her gardens in Bangladesh, Washington, DC, and Malaysia. She taught papermaking workshops for children and teachers in Washington, DC, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Kuala Lumpur and Kuching, Malaysia, and Colombo, Sri Lanka. In 2002, she had the opportunity to study more advanced papermaking techniques with Lynn Sures at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC. In 2002 one of her 3D paper sculptures was selected to tour the US a part of the 2nd Annual Collegiate Handmade Paper Art Show.
Although she had been a fiber artist for many years, Deborah only began to study drawing in 2004, while living in Sri Lanka where she studied with Sri Lankan artist, Anoma Wijewardene, until 2006. She participated in her first group show in June 2006 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, at the American Ambassador’s Residence. Upon returning to Washington, DC in 2007, she took classes at The Art League in Alexandria, VA, where she studied gesture figure drawing and painting with Avis Flemming and Jackie Saunders, and watercolor with Deborah Ellis. Combining her new understanding of painting with the paper art techniques she had learned from Lynn Sures, she began to find her artistic voice using paper pulp as the medium for her painted images.
Deborah now lives in Middlebury, Vermont, where she is actively exploring the world of pigment and paper and fiber, creating exciting paintings of the landscapes of Vermont and the larger world where she has lived over the past twenty-five years.
