DebiLynn Fendley

The Artist Younger with Cat
Watercolor and Graphite on Paper
6x4 Inches

DebiLynn Fendley is an artist known for her work in multiple mediums including drawing, painting, printmaking, and photography. Her themes include loneliness, isolation, self-identity, and the strength of the modern woman. She is influenced by the work of Andrew and Jamie Wyeth, Joyce Tenneson, Steve Anchell, and multiple documentary photographers on whom she dotes.

“My work comes from the premise that I can - and do - use my art as a means of social exploration. I work with cultural subgroups, and the process of forming bonds with them and of listening to their stories is as much a part of my art as the end product. The visual art I produce -- prints, paintings, drawings, and photographs -- is a direct result of the way my interactions with my models change me as a person, either strengthening my ideas or altering them altogether. I approach a blank page sometimes as a symbolist, sometimes as a pseudo-documentarian, but always in terms of a storyteller, for I am a writer and manipulator of words as well as a visual artist. Being a printmaker, I am fascinated with process and the physicality of art production...and that fascination with physicality lends itself well to my work in the field as a photographer, where I work long hours often in dimly lit areas where few other photographers, especially women, will dare to go.”