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2025 Painting Myself
As a child I was afraid of mirrors. I used to believe that someone could…
2025 Fever Dream talk
Talk given at the opening of Fever Dream, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town 29th March 2025…
2025 Fever Dream
In a painting things just are, with the inevitable feeling of dreams. The exquisite textures…
2024 True Love: on painting people
Painting someone is an act of love. My brush creeps over their skin, the lines…
2024 text for “Dream with Open Eyes”, WhiteSpaceBlackBox, Switzerland
Dream with Open Eyes A painting is a closed world, where I am the master,…
2024 A Thin Veil
A painting is like a thin veil, hanging suspended between me and the unknowable. As…
2023 Vertigo: texts for individual paintings
Meaning and Purpose Triptych Driven by a sense of purpose, 8 billion of us with…
2023 Vertigo Exhibition Text
I am overcome by vertigo. Vertigo is the dizzying knowledge that I will die, while…
2023 Talk: The Compulsion to Paint
I am often asked why I paint and where I get my ideas. A very…
2022 Folly: English and German
Folly (English) Deborah Poynton 2022 “Folly” is impossible to translate into German. In relation to…
2021 Texts on selected paintings, “Beyond Belief” catalogue and exhibition, Drents Museum, Netherlands
Undergrowth 3 and 7 The tiny negligible spaces that make up the dramatic scenes, the…
2021 “Proverb”: short text
Terse, humorous, metaphorical, a proverb delivers truth with a light slap of recognition, an admonishment…
2023 A deep dive into the classic and contemporary genres of African art (excerpt), Bongo Mei, Stirworld, India
There are different art styles prevalent in South Africa, that connect the worlds of classical…
2023 “Rimpeltjes en blauwe aders” Dutch and English, Eric Bos, Dagblad van het Noorden, Netherlands
Rimpeltjes en blauwe aders Deborah Poynton: In-Between Self (2021), olieverf op doek. H et is…
2023 “Overcome by vertigo – knowing I will die, while acting like I won’t”, Anna Prudhomme, Lampoon, Italy
Deborah Poynton – painter of the hyper-realistic: Discordant objects amongst natural landscapes, nude portraits of…
2022 “Bis unter die Haut” (German with English translation) Ronald Berg, tipBerlin magazine
Bis unter die Haut Das Haus am Lützowplatz zeigt Deborah Poyntons wahn-witzig und wahnsinnig intime…
2022 “Bilder mit Sogwirkung” Johanna Bayram, July/August edition Kunst:Art, Germany
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2021 Michael Smith review of “Proverb”, Artthrob
Glimpse the Machinery: Deborah Poynton’s ‘Proverb’ A review by Michael Smith on the 29th of April 2021. Realism is…
2021 “Probleemloos een penis schilderen”, Fred de Vries, for issue 31, De Groene, Netherlands
Voor kunstenaar Deborah Poynton is er geen verschil tussen een paradijselijk landschap, een afgetakeld lichaam…
2021 “Paint a penis effortlessly” English translation, Fred de Vries, issue 31, De Groene, Netherlands
For artist Deborah Poynton there is no difference between a paradise landscape, a decrepit body…
2018 ICIAO Mauritius press
2018 “Questions to…” David Onsiong, Weekly 2018 “Deborah Poynton: Rencontres dans l’espace mental”, L’Express 2018…
2016 Deborah Poynton: Perspectives in Adjective
Deborah Poynton Perspectives October 7, 2016 This week adjective speaks to Deborah Poynton about the relationship between…
2016 “Picnic” review, Lucinda Jolly
BOTH followers and detractors of Deborah Poynton’s paintings are familiar with her dense, finely worked…
2021 Mads Damsbo, “A Car Wreck in Paradise”, catalogue essay for “Beyond Belief”
A Car Wreck in Paradise Looking and Being Looked at in the Work of Deborah…
2021 “Beyond Belief”, catalogue essay, Karlijn de Jong
‘Paintings are windows through which I regard life.’ Deborah Poynton As a child, Deborah Poynton…
2016 excerpt from “9 weeks” Hansi Momomu-Gordon.pdf
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2010 “The Art of Denial” Janet Solomons
THE ART OF DENIAL An examination of DEBORAH POYNTON’S exhibition EVERYTHING MATTERS, 2010 KZNSA By…
2009 “Deborah Poynton Observed”: catalogue essay by David Goldblatt
Deborah’s Poynton’s paintings of people are based entirely, as far as I know, on photographs…
2005 “On Being Painted”, catalogue essay, Professor Peter Rech, University of Cologne
On Being Painted Peter Rech, University of Cologne “What we cannot speak about we must…
1998 Deborah Poynton catalogue essay, Jacqueline Nolte
catalogue essay Jacqui (Jacqueline) Nolte in: ‘Deborah Poynton’, 1998 Deborah Poynton is a painter, committed…