Back in the summer of 2018, whilst sitting with Debra Luker in her garden studio, Carmen invited Debra to showcase her artistry on our Soulhub Journal 02. She willingly and very generously shared a number of options to choose from.
Carmen picked the one that stood out. It was an unusual magazine front cover. She fell in love with it.
6 years later, here we are, with Debra back in her studio speaking to Carmen Rendell about her life as an artist and her first ever book The Pigment Trail.
Soul stories are all about getting to the heart and essence of someone’s life. Our Soulhub Journal told those stories in print and through artwork, and today we’re telling them through the medium of sound.
Debra Luker is an incredible artist. Her style is bold and colourful. It has a life and vitality all of it’s own, born from her experiences in India. The greens, golds, yellows, blues and oranges are just a handful of incredible colours, designs and textures that awaken the soul.
Over the last couple of years Debra has taken a group of explorers and new artists to India to connect with some of the majestic nature of what she loves about this country and culture. Always drawn back to her soul place, Debra would sit for hours and whilst absorbing the streets, buildings, people and atmosphere would create her sketches and paintings there and then. Once returned to the UK, she would pull them all together, and send them off to a publisher in the US, and now here she is with The Pigment Trail launched and in the hands of many an armchair traveller around the world.
Today she shares of her travels and inspiration. We hope you feel the vibrancy of India through her descriptions and stories.
If you’d like to purchase The Pigment Trail, you buy it here, or follow Debra on Instagram and be absorbed into the life of colour and craft, and her creative days.
To read our Soulhub Journal, with 100 stories from poets, storytellers, artists and creatives from around the world, you can find out more about the contents, and order your copy here.
As Debra says, please do get in touch with her and let her know what you think of The Pigment Trail, or leave a comment below.
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