Debbie Lee is an internationally trained and collected artist. Having studied in London, Glasgow, Chicago and India she now keeps her studio on the coast of Dorset.

I am rediscovering Dante’s Hell through scroll making. I have been researching how to translate Dante’s Inferno into a fold out artists book with a view to developing images into colour lithography. Supported by a bursary from a_n The Artists Information Company and Arts Council England. This is massive encouragement for me to continue to develop my work thanks to @anartistsinfo and @aceagrams for awarding me the time, space and money bursary.

Debbie Lee

I have been easing myself back into painting mode by printing. I hope that you will enjoy seeing some of this series of monotypes I’m working on around my project on Dante’s Inferno. Crossing the river of forgetting. ‘Watch your step!’

“Now deep within the darkness of that well
and further even than those giant feet,
I stood and gazed sheer upwards at that wall
19    when, out of nowhere, I heard: ‘Watch your step!
Don’t plant those feet of yours on some poor head;”
“we’re here all brothers in this sorry crowd.’
22    I turned at this, and now could see – around,
and all beneath, my feet – a lake of ice
that seemed far less like water than clear glass.”

Excerpt From
The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri

Translated by Robin Fitzpatrick
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