Deborah Azzopardi

1958

London, United Kingdom

She has been working and developing her style for the last 30 years. She is most noted for her painting ‘Sssshhh’, which has sold a similar amount of copies as Vladimir Tretchikoff’s, Chinese Girl. Early in her career, Deborah Azzopardi was a licensee to The Walt Disney Company. Following a short illness she devoted her life to her family and art “I have always enjoyed art but didn"t have the opportunity to study when I was younger. Life was about survival." Reproductions of her work was first sold widely at IKEA. Today, Deborah Azzopardi’s originals are sold through The Cynthia Corbett Gallery in London, United Kingdom and Bonhams and Christie’s auction houses. Deborah Azzopardi works in the style of People’s Art, a 1960s art movement, utilizing flat cartoon-like imagery and bright colour in a manner stylistically similar to American artists Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol. Deborah Azzopardi’s distinctive features are her use of basic, bold colours, resulting in large scale compositions that critics have called lively, provoking and humorous. In March 2014, the artist had her first solo United Kingdom exhibition of originals and limited editions on Cork Street, London and launched a book, published by Iologies Fine Art Publications. Azzopardi"s debut book ‘Sshh…’ showcases her work over the previous 10 years and features more than 100 images and a foreword by art critic, Estelle Lovatt Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts). “Unique in approach, you easily recognise an Azzopardi picture. America has Lichtenstein we have Azzopardi. Working simple graphics and toned shading (for depth), the People’s Art line that Azzopardi sketches is different to Lichtenstein’son Hers is more curvaceous. Feminine. Whereas his lines are male, brash and clunky. And her humour is distinctively British.” extract from the foreword to Deborah Azzopardi’s Book ‘Sshh…’ by Estelle Lovatt Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

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Background

Deborah Azzopardi was born in 1958 in Golders Green, London.

Career

She has been working and developing her style for the last 30 years. She is most noted for her painting ‘Sssshhh’, which has sold a similar amount of copies as Vladimir Tretchikoff’s, Chinese Girl. Early in her career, Deborah Azzopardi was a licensee to The Walt Disney Company.

Following a short illness she devoted her life to her family and art

“I have always enjoyed art but didn"t have the opportunity to study when I was younger. Life was about survival."

Reproductions of her work was first sold widely at IKEA. Today, Deborah Azzopardi’s originals are sold through The Cynthia Corbett Gallery in London, United Kingdom and Bonhams and Christie’s auction houses.

Deborah Azzopardi works in the style of People’s Art, a 1960s art movement, utilizing flat cartoon-like imagery and bright colour in a manner stylistically similar to American artists Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol. Deborah Azzopardi’s distinctive features are her use of basic, bold colours, resulting in large scale compositions that critics have called lively, provoking and humorous.

In March 2014, the artist had her first solo United Kingdom exhibition of originals and limited editions on Cork Street, London and launched a book, published by Iologies Fine Art Publications.

Azzopardi"s debut book ‘Sshh…’ showcases her work over the previous 10 years and features more than 100 images and a foreword by art critic, Estelle Lovatt Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts). “Unique in approach, you easily recognise an Azzopardi picture. America has Lichtenstein we have Azzopardi.

Working simple graphics and toned shading (for depth), the People’s Art line that Azzopardi sketches is different to Lichtenstein’son

Hers is more curvaceous. Feminine. Whereas his lines are male, brash and clunky.

And her humour is distinctively British.” extract from the foreword to Deborah Azzopardi’s Book ‘Sshh…’ by Estelle Lovatt Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

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