It has been created with layers of acrylic paint and has texture paste added to the lobster to make it pop off the book pages which are attached to wood panel.

It has been finished with satin varnish, signed on the front ‘Debstar’ my street name 🙂 and is ready to hang.

Dimensions of Canvas: 50cm wide x 50cm high x 2cm deep

Weight: Approx. 1kg

Deborah Lang, also known as Debstar, works from her home-based studio in Brisbane. Known for her use of bold colour and mixed media, including works created on book pages. Her artworks are held in commercial and residential spaces throughout Australia and internationally.

A self-taught artist, Deborah’s creative journey began with a deep love of working with timber. Originally upcycling and restoring furniture, she progressed to creating artworks on reclaimed wood and feather wall hangings. When she couldn’t find a painting she loved for her own home, she created an abstracted beachscape on canvas, an experience that sparked a passion for painting that she has continued to pursue ever since.

Deborah is driven by experimentation, constantly exploring texture, materials, and subject matter as a way of maintaining creative energy and evolving her practice. Her works are richly textured, with subjects that seem to emerge from the canvas. Drawing inspiration from the world around her, she finds beauty in simplicity and the everyday. Nature, birds and animals, landscapes, and elements of pop art recur throughout her body of work.

For Deborah, art is intrinsically tied to joy and purpose. She hopes her work conveys the happiness she feels while creating it, offering viewers a moment of connection - whether that is a smile, a sense of calm, or quiet solace.
As she reflects through the words of her favourite artist, Leonardo da Vinci: “A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.”