Here’s something I love about teaching... sometimes the demo pieces actually become real paintings! These paintings range in size from 8" x 10" to 9 ” x 12″ and a little bigger. They are on Paper or Loose canvas and are easy to ship and look beautiful framed. These painting in my Little Gems series are connected by their inspiration:  practice and experimentation with acrylics and mixed media. They are the results of my art making practice, often in front of a workshop group!

Litte Gems -(Small works on paper and loose canvas)

The word drishti comes from Sanskrit and is often used in yoga practice as a reference to a single spot for the yoga practitioner to focus on in order to maintain our balance. These paintings have been created consciously to invite you, the viewer on a  visual journey inwards, into your own alignment, re-connecting to the love within yourself, re-connecting to the Drishti within yourself.

The Drishti Paintings Series (medium to very large format)

Pure Abstraction Series
“Great art picks up where nature ends.” Mark Chagall.  Pure Abstraction is undoubtedly inspired by the divine experience and feeling of being in nature. Whether hiking along a river and looking up a the surrounding mountain peaks or sitting peacefully next to the ocean watching the tide change.  The bliss and inspiration from these experiences transpire to the studio and the art work in Pure Abstraction result as my interpretation of those experiences.  Natural materials such as sand were often incorporated into these paintings

Most of the paintings in this series created from 2006 - 2009 were done in California, However after the artist's move back home to Canada several new paintings have been added to t

Pure Abstraction -> Medium 24" x 36" to large 36" x 48"

These small study paintings were created in preparation for the large scale Drishti Paintings Series Exhibit going on exhibit at the Amelia Douglas Gallery in Vancouver, Canada, from November 2024 - January 2025. These practice piece helped me figure out how to integrate layers with sacred geometry, in particular the flower of life, as well as to understand colour frequency and its correlation to each energy centre (chakra). I learned something and healed something within me with the creation of each of these paintings, and my intention in offering them here is to send them out to collectors such as yourself and share that goodness with you!

Little Drishti's

These paintings were created on request and commission from various patrons. They vary in size and focus but are similar in their abstract mixed media expressionism.

Commission Paintings

Each painting in this series is a compilation of a variety of cut and torn painted and textured papers pieced together in a patchwork pattern. In retrospect this body of work was about quilts because of the metaphor of safety and warmth they provide. During a time of personal upheaval, making these paintings created a sense of comfort in the methodical  puzzle-like methodology of their creation. They also serve as a reminder of the quilts my grandmother Betty used to make for me as a child. These paintings were created in Santa Barbara, California, USA. Two of the originals are in the collection of the Beach Cities Health District, Redondo Beach, CA, USA.

Patchwork Paper (23" x 30")

In this series, Deb Chaney collaborated with composer Gregory Rosa to create this special edition collection of ‘pieces of the pond’ series. A few of which were made available with a limited edition FULL MOON FROG POND CD.  You can sample the music that accompanies the art here: http://www.gregoryrosa.com/

Full Moon Frog Pond -> 8" x 10" on Paper

A WOMAN’S EMOTIONS….RAW, HEARTFELT, AND EXPLOSIVE can take many paths and express much energy. In this series, mixed media artist Deb Chaney allows her inner self the unrestricted freedom to express as she has never done before.Deep radiant reds and the use of contrasts illuminate the power and vitality behind this work. “Each piece in the series started with a thought written in paint on the paper.” The words are then devoured by layers of red, black and white papers, and mixed media to create the texture and vibrancy of the finished abstract image. Deb’s work transforms spirited thoughts and emotions into stirring visual form in bold and imaginative ways.

Raw Expression (23" x30" on paper)

Medium Sized. Simple Abstract paintings Inspired by nondescript writings that melt into the canvas. Each painting, an echo of my own personal spiritual learning. Embued with wisdom and healing words, these paintings aim to elevate our collector consciousness.

The Writing Is In The Air (30" x 40")

The process of making these paintings involved music blasting and paints, tools, charcoal, water buckets strewn across the studio. Fragments of Life paintings are about the energy of the moment, emotions, and making art in the throes of life. 

Fragments of Life -> Medium Size 23" x 30" Paintings

The "Yoga Girls" series, a small body of work painted with mixed media and acrylics on wood panel before and during the artist partook in a nine month intensive somatic yoga  teacher training course with Rizze Yoga in Vancouver, BC. Most of the painting are of the silhouette of a woman doing a yoga pose with an abstract background. 


Yoga Girls -> Small 9" x 12" ready to hang paintings on wood panel

Where Spirituality meets Physicality, is a series large-scale  abstract landscape paintings by Deb Chaney were created while exploring into the question; where does spirituality meet physicality? In each painting, the earth/ground represents the physical nature of existence where the artist uses heavy body acrylics and mediums such a modeling paste with raw earth materials such as sand and salt to create thick textured earthy matter: "Physicality". The sky/upper portion of each painting represents the spiritual nature of existence where the artist taps into the unseen realm of spirit, faith, surrender, trust, and inner listening allowing these to guide her gestural manipulation of watered down liquid acrylics and polymer mediums to expre

Deb Chaney's Art Collections