Deborah Bell
Deborah Bell, a leading Johannesburg artist, is concerned fundamentally with a personal search for the ‘Self’ and she often draws on spiritual imagery from a wide range of sources. This continuity of form and content within Bell’s opus allows the possible meanings within her work to reach beyond the personal search of the artist herself. Bell works in a number of mediums including painting, drawing, printmaking, animation and ceramic sculpture.
She was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1957. Bell received her B.A., B.A.(Hons) and M.F.A. degrees at the University of the Witwatersrand and has since lectured at various tertiary institutions, including the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of South Africa. She has travelled extensively in North America and Europe, but is now based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
