About Deborah Pendell

I am a self taught fine art photographer, based in Cambridge, UK and have been creating photographic art for over a decade. For many years, I created fine art conceptual photographic imagery for the book cover market, building a large portfolio of creative digital artwork with my agent Arcangel Images which has been published globally on the covers of books by many famous authors. Working within this industry allowed me to grow creatively and be very experimental with my photography. My artworks are both photographic and mixed digital media and I love to work in a wide range of genres - I don’t want to feel fettered by a particular subject matter. I am constantly looking for new ideas for art and taking inspiration from the things I see. My artwork reflects my love of colour, mood and metaphor, sometimes delving into the darker underbelly of street art and graffiti that I love to photograph and work with, but also at times seeking to capture and create images with an ethereal, painterly quality with the use of textures. My artistic approach to art is to photograph and reimagine everyday, sometimes nostalgic subjects and recreate these as contemporary artworks. I describe my work as ‘playing with pixels’ because every artwork starts life as a photograph or a combination of photographs that I have taken - I then work with the pixels until a new artwork organically develops- I rarely know where this experimentation is going to go but I know when I am finished! My recent Stamp Collection celebrates the beauty of vintage postage stamps elevated with manipulation adding twists of contemporary pop art colour. My Vinyl Revival collection captures the tangible aesthetic of vinyl records but with a modern day makeover creating a striking aesthetic. My artwork is held in private collections both in the UK and overseas. I am represented by several art galleries, both physical and online, in London and the UK. My artwork has also been bought by interior designers and art consultancies in the UK and overseas for private client projects and larger projects including the Nobu hotel in Miami, the Virgin boutique hotel in Edinburgh and a boutique hotel in Dallas.