Debi Garrett is a Northern Ireland–based artist whose work investigates identity, memory and the unseen architecture of the inner life. Blending portraiture with abstracted fields of light, she builds her surfaces in transparent layers - glazes, mark-making and subtle metallics - allowing forms to emerge and recede like recollection. Faces become landscapes: mapped by time, etched with tenderness, defiance and the long work of becoming oneself.
Her collection Echoes of the Soul brings together figurative works that sit at the threshold between the seen and the felt - portraits that ask quiet, difficult questions about what we carry beneath the surface, what we guard, and what refuses to be silenced. Alongside her portrait practice, she paints nature pieces that attend to the way light moves through forests and across water.
Debi's work lives in private collections across the UK, Ireland, Canada and South Africa. She has her first solo exhibition in County Down in summer 2026, and her practice continues to evolve at the intersection of the contemplative and the contemporary.