Crowdsourcing Art | Neon Burns

// September 1st, 2010 // b-loud // b-uncut

Crowdsourcing art is just what we do. This week we have the wonderful Debra D’Breau to showcase. Her digitally enhanced art is beguilingly brash & bold. Her confidence in lustrous form erupts in a high-octane contrast. Each image whips viewers in the gut and her powerful pictures leave a long-lasting sensory hit. She is a greatly valued artist in our Crowd and always offers positive feedback to many of our emerging artists. To commission art from Debra’s colour brandishing brilliance go here. Otherwise enjoy the interview…

What was your very first artwork?
Doodles of my “Lines” as far back as grade school.

Describe the piece you love the most—why?
“Fallopia” It was part of my theses in college. It took over a hundred hours to complete and I received an A+ for it. The crazy thing is I painted it with my then 6-year-old daughter’s grade school, glitter paints. The one I have posted is not the original.

What are your methods? Your inspirations?
I paint, draw and write, but at this time I am having an epiphany with photography. The world and the people in it are my inspirations.

What did it take to make it to where you are now?
Success, poverty, success, poverty, success, poverty. . .

Do you make a living from your artwork?
My artwork is giving me life.

Who has helped you along the way?
My mother has been my greatest support. She always saw the artist within, but I never dreamed it would ever be a possibility. I was a corporate girl chasing the money and found it didn’t necessarily bring me fulfillment.

What 5 artists (dead or alive) would you invite for the ultimate dinner party?
Ansel Adams, Georgia O’Keeffe, Salvador Dali, Richard Avedon, Francesco Scavullo, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rin. I know I named (6), but I couldn’t choose one to leave out.

Your favourite curse?
A bit embarrassed to say, but it’s “f_ _k!” It’s a word that fits every occasion.

Your biggest (albeit endearing) flaw?
Overly emotional and overly sensitive..

Qualities a man needs to seduce you and the flaws that will repel you? Seduce? He must be a true gentleman. Repel? A man that has no respect for himself.

Your parents advice you should have followed, but didn’t?
You cannot spend $3, when you only have $1.

Your idea of the perfect weekend?
Room 26, in the Victorian House, at the Beachmere Inn in Ogunquit, ME.

Who would you chose to rule the world?
The universe, but it already does so I’m good.

Favourite ice-cream?
Breyers Butter Pecan

Where do you see yourself in…..One month? One Year? One Decade?
I don’t even know where I’ll be tomorrow. Life can change in an instant.