Deborah Gavel’s work is created in textured layers of wax and paint. She works several hours each day on her pieces, building up wet over dry. Through this process, Gavel says, “each piece becomes a meditation marked by time."
“Pattern intrigues me — the outlines of a wrought iron fence, the border designs of Persian miniatures, plaster ornamentation on a ceiling in India, filigree work on a ring, brocades and textiles of all kinds,” Gavel continues. “There are patterns to music and patterns to our customs and habits.
"With repetition, as in chanting a mantra, the moment is emphasized; a visual matrix is established. Abstraction has the ability to convey feeling without attachment to representational forms. It can express the sensuous and the sacred; it can speak to the mathematical structure of textiles, the weft and warp threads that wrap around my psyche.”
