DEBORAH LAWRENCE SCHAFER
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¡HOLA! / HELLO! I'm Deborah.

I'm a California-based visual artist. Mainly, my work explores questions.

​After being stuck in a flat in Madrid last spring, and then returning to enjoy California's beautiful beaches and parks just when the most horrific wildfire season began I was reminded of the urgency of our relationship with nature. I created the 2021 new media Botanical Offshoot series as I reflect on this relationship. For me, these artworks holds two somewhat conflicting ideas simultaneously: a celebration of the sheer beauty of nature and our attempt to control it. With images of flowers as a sort of allegory for the natural world, these artworks pose the question of how our action alter or repair the living world.


And mainly, I want to get back to how things were before hanging out on the beach with friends and family, only better— in a more beautiful world with environmental and social justice. I hope you can imagine and help build that too.

Until we see each other,
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2021 © Deborah Lawrence Schafer
  • Home
  • PAINTINGS
    • Botanical
    • La Mar
    • Fog
  • WORKS ON PAPER
    • Reflexiones (WORK IN PROGRESS)
    • Botanical Offshoot
    • COLORS OF LAKE TAHOE
    • Botanical
    • Bear Island
    • View
  • Early Work
  • About
  • Contact