Deb L Bunker is an artist living and working in Mid Wales and is primarily a painter, although she works in many mediums. More recently she began working again in oils finding this slow and mindful process more in keeping with the direction her work is taking - inviting the viewer to slow down, tune in and look closer, particularly if the work is depicting landscape or has a natural element. The aim being to evoke a feeling of connection between viewer and subject.

Having grown up in rural mid Wales and having received what she considers ‘a proper country upbringing,’ she is passionate about the environment and sees huge changes in the habitats so close to her heart. One of her chief concerns is how very detached from nature our modern world seems to be and how unaware of its’ importance for our future survival. Her work has taken a different turn from merely painting pretty landscapes or illustrating natural history books to trying to convey a more emotional response via the means of paint, sculpture or performance activism.

Integral to her work are studies in the Waterhole Ritual method of horsemanship - a method involving daily meditation with her horses and working with body language and energy that ultimately achieves ‘the dance’ of both horse and human moving as one. In order to be able to do this one must be rooted into the ‘now’, connecting to the natural world in order to become truly earthed. She considers this and her long daily walks communing in nature, watching and listening closely to all around her, as much a part of her practice as the act of painting or making.

She has been been working with the environmental performance activism group, the Red Rebels, since 2019, most recently on the Save the Wye pilgrimage and with the Mid Wales Red Rebel Brigade in one bodymind performance actions and was recently involved in a film making project at Tintern Abbey with the Writers Rebellion. She regularly donates artwork to help promote the cause of environmental organisations and groups.

Deb L Bunker is an artist living and working in Mid Wales and is primarily a painter, although she works in many mediums. More recently she began working again in oils finding this slow and mindful process more in keeping with the direction her work is taking - inviting the viewer to slow down, tune in and look closer, particularly if the work is depicting landscape or has a natural element. The aim being to evoke a feeling of connection between viewer and subject.

Having grown up in rural mid Wales and having received what she considers ‘a proper country upbringing,’ she is passionate about the environment and sees huge changes in the habitats so close to her heart. One of her chief concerns is how very detached from nature our modern world seems to be and how unaware of its’ importance for our future survival. Her work has taken a different turn from merely painting pretty landscapes or illustrating natural history books to trying to convey a more emotional response via the means of paint, sculpture or performance activism.

Integral to her work are studies in the Waterhole Ritual method of horsemanship - a method involving daily meditation with her horses and working with body language and energy that ultimately achieves ‘the dance’ of both horse and human moving as one. She considers this and her long daily walks communing in nature, watching and listening closely to all around her, as much a part of her practice as the act of painting or making.

She has been been working with the environmental performance activism group, the Red Rebels, since 2019, most recently on the Save the Wye pilgrimage and with the Mid Wales Red Rebel Brigade in one bodymind performance actions and was recently involved in a film making project at Tintern Abbey with the Writers Rebellion. She regularly donates artwork to help promote the cause of environmental organisations and groups.