Debbie Le'Cand

In my art, how I see and make sense of the world is, in part, influenced by my eyesight. In one eye I have 5% vision and through it I see patches of vibrant, intense colour and light and hazy shapes with no defined outlines. In my formative years I wore an eye patch over my good eye for a while and saw the world through an Impressionist lens. I still do. This stayed with me and so felt a natural way to paint. When I first saw the paintings of Monet, I felt a deep sense of connection as they evoked a sense of how I see through that eye.
I said my 'good' eye earlier... but that doesn't mean the other eye is bad... it just offers a different way of seeing. It adds another texture to things.
Ever evolving, I am now fascinated by the contrast between the sharp detail and clean edges I see with the good eye and the softness and blur of the other, or the near and the far. The impression does not exist without the detail and minutia of how it has come to be.
When I view artworks that inspire me, I have an emotional, visceral or intellectual response. Either I am uplifted, reflective, informed, changed or I have felt seen. I hope to do one or some or all of these for whoever views my work.

-St Martin's Film and Video BA (Hons)
-Byam Shaw School of Fine Art, diploma
-East Anglia University, Art Foundation

Cambridge Arts Theatre
King's College, Cambridge