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Deborah Eater, NCS
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Artist, creator, overthinker.
#painterlycollage

Be the light you wish to see in the world.
www.DeborahEater.com
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This collage is getting a slight touch up. Masked areas are sections that I will strip the varnish from and re-work.
February 9, 2026 at 9:12 AM
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I’m struggling with a title for this #abstract #collage. What, if anything, does it suggest to you?

First in a small series of minis, buffered magazine clippings on mat board, 4” x 4” (10 x 10 cm).
A circle and seven crescents dance on a background of thin stripes cut from assorted illustrations. Available for purchase.
February 1, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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Artists don’t retire. Making art isn’t just something we DO; it’s part of what we ARE.

Seas of Europa, 5”x7” ( 12.5 x 18.5 cm), buffered magazine clippings on cradled mat board.

Available ($180)
January 31, 2026 at 12:19 AM
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My kneading technique fittingly leaves a heart-shaped dough mark on the counter.
#baking #sourdough #madewithlove
January 21, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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And now your moment of zen.
January 20, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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Staving off the physical chill on this winter day is easier than staving off the sense of doom occasioned by current events. #woodfire #logfire #burning #flames
January 17, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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#glass #perfume #bottle #materialculture exhibit at #ellarslie the #Trenton city museum.
There cut glass perfume bottles from the Gilded Era, one (according to the accompanying text) with a shaheen stopper
January 14, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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Troubled Times. This is my 5th collage on this theme.
Measuring just 5”x5”, it is the smallest. The largest was 10”x14”, but I’m currently working on one that will be 20”x24” when it’s finished.
Paper collage featuring simple geometric shapes clipped from magazine pages. Black rectangles give the appearance of city buildings. Dusky vermilion triangles give a sense of disorder, chaos, conflict. Created for the Philadelphia CollageWorks “community collage quilt” project.
January 13, 2026 at 4:13 AM
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Law enforcement. To serve and protect. In the past few months, US military and intelligence personnel, conducting "law enforcement" activities in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, have killed at least 110 suspected drug runners. Emphasis on "suspected" here. There's been no evidence provided, no arrests, no trials, no convictions. Just summary executions. 110 of them. Last week, the US military, conducting a "law enforcement" activity in Caracas killed about 100 people, injures an unknown number more, disrupted electrical power to an entire city...all in order to "capture" two individuals who were asleep in their beds. Today, an ICE officer stuck his hand, and his handgun, into the driver's side window of an SUV, and shot the driver in the head, several times. Notwithstanding lies emanating from DHS and the White House, the videos are pretty clear. Serve and protect? Wholesale murder...in our names. There is something seriously wrong here. This is not service; this is not protection.
January 8, 2026 at 3:59 AM
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Off to the start of a new year! I’m the only person in the park on this bitter cold day. This is the rarely-seen back side of my studio.
#artistlife #barn #winter #landscape
An expanse of winter-browned grass leads to a small stand of scrawny bare trees backed by a gray thicket of scrubby brush and small trees. A reddish-brown cluster of bushes stands near the back, and a weathered gray building (my studio) is just visible to the far right. The sky above is late-afternoon blue with puffy white cumulus clouds.
January 2, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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My personal favorites from the Boston Printmakers Members Show at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, MA.

#art #printmaking #artexhibition #duxbury
Monotype over lithograph by Diane Kaiser Etching by Rosalyn Richards Solar plate / intaglio by Julia Luteran
December 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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One more reason why I continue to produce new works along the lines of “Troubled Times”.

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#artworkinprogress #mixedmedis #civilunrest
Current work in progress: a city skyline (currently represented by plain brown paper shapes, intended to be dark silhouettes of skyscrapers with a few details) against a painted background that looks a little bit like a conflagration enveloping the city - shades of warm red and orange below and a dark blue-black above. The entire piece will eventually be covered in magazine clippings. The original Troubled Times collage — 5”x7” (12.3 cm x 15.4 cm) — buffered magazine clippings on canvas board, sold to a private collector in 2018. A city skyline emerges from a jumble of dark shapes against a background that fades from light to dark red.
December 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. Henry Ward Beecher

#FineArt #CollageArt #SycamoreTree #NatureArt #ArtisticExpression #TreeArt #MixedMedia #ArtCommunity #NatureLovers #VisualArt #painterlycollage
Impressionistic image of a bare sycamore tree trunk and its major branches, as seen looking from the ground up near (but not directly at) the base of the tree. The image is formed by overlapping small snips of paper clipped from magazine illustrations and women's clothing catalogs. It took about 600-750 hand-cut and individually-pasted scraps of paper to create this collage. Painterly collage by Deborah Eater: "Sycamore (March Morning)" created in 2014, 10" x 8" (25 cm x 20 cm), buffered, de-acidified magazine clippings on archival mat board. This sycamore tree has stood on my property since the 1950's. I see it outside my kitchen window every morning and watch the seasons work their way across it every day as I go through my morning routine.
December 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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I love having my students draw pineapples. Their first reaction is usually, "You expect me to do that?!" But after I help them break it down and apply the techniques they've learned, they get a real sense of accomplishment in the end. #FoodOnFriday #pineapple #charcoal #artteacher
Charcoal drawing of a pineapple sitting on a plate, approximately life size (about 18" tall).
December 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Detail of a work in progress, about 13 cm (5”) across. Buffered magazine clippings on canvas. #art #collage #orange #recycled #mixedmedia #painterlycillage
December 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Working on a pair of new cityscapes that aren’t ready to show yet. Here’s one from a more optimistic time several years ago.
#art #collage #painterlycollage #abstract #cityscape #sunrise
Abstract landscape showing a city skyline. The buildings are portrayed as flat geometric shapes reflecting the warm colors of a sunrise, while the sky in the background is a cold steely blue. The image is a paper collage measuring 13” x 18”. It is composed of de-acidified magazine clippings on mat board. The entire piece consists of approximately 2100 hand-cut, individually pasted snips of paper. This work is available for purchase, $1200.
December 4, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Sketching out some ideas for upcoming exhibitions: mashing together a blue theme with reinterpreting the city.
#art #abstract #blue
Abstract colored pencil design showing textured curved bands crossing on another Abstract colored pencil design showing textured curved bands crossing on another Abstract colored pencil design showing a deeply textured wide curved ribbon Abstract colored pencil design showing curved rectangles filled in various patterns juxtaposed side by side
December 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Happiness is a place between too much and too little.

I think of this proverb every time I create art depicting food.
Charcoal still life drawing of a large black eggplant and three bell peppers. I created this drawing as a demo piece for one of my drawing classes, Drawing from Nature (indoors), a 5-7 week still life drawing class focusing on natural objects such as leaves, shells, flowers, fruits, and vegetables.
November 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Just finished, ISO a title. 12” x 9”, paper on mat board. #paper #collage #abstract #pattern #green
12” x 9” (30.4cm x 22.8cm), the light-colored papers are all Farrow and Ball wallpaper, the darkest one is an unknown paper that was given to me by a friend. Available for purchase, unframed, $250 USD
November 20, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Highlights from the Bucks County Community College exhibition, Art That Blooms, a joint project of the #art and #floraldesign departments. These were examples of floral designs created in response to paintings.
The acrylic painting on the wall depicts three abstracted cabbage roses using a boldly fauvist palette on a graphic background dominated by vividly colored rays emerging from a central point. The oversized bouquet echoes the painting’s palette with deep yellow, orange, and red roses, eucalyptus sprigs, and a cascade of glittery plastic pinwheels. The floral designer interpreted a still life depicting bottles of various shapes and sizes with a series of tightly packed monochromatic bouquets, each one a different shape and each composed of a single species. Genius! To complement the honeycomb-patterned artwork on the wall (upper right) the designer created a five-foot high arrangement of bamboo and orchids. The floral designer interpreted a boldly striped abstract painting with tight straight rows of single varieties of blooms, including roses, daisies, and mums.
November 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Autumn has come to my studio at the barn. The trees declined to peak at the sane time this year but opted instead for an extended season. First it was mostly green with just a little color; now mostly red and gold but with some patches already growing bare.
On the left, a weathered gray barn. To the right and in the background, golden autumn leaves and underbrush, burnished in the late afternoon sun. In between, a swath of lawn still green but strewn all over with browned fallen leaves. Barely visible in the foreground, a cluster of late-blooming wildflowers and a clump of weeds with seed heads catching the fading light.
November 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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A favorite #collage from a few years ago, the one I use on my business cards. This was made entirely from magazine clippings pasted on canvas board. No paint. No other type of paper. Just very careful color selection.
#artofbluesky #painterlycollage #abstract #recycled
Abstract composition of brightly colored shapes - two ovals and a double spiral - floating on a background divide diagonally into three regions. 20” x 16”, containing approximately 2500-3000 individually hand-cut and hand-pasted clippings taken from Coldwater Creek catalogs and the Princeton Alumni Weekly.
November 2, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Wishing you a beautiful weekend 🧡
#Autumn #BlueSkyArtShow
#Macro #BloomScrolling #DailyFlowers #OnlyBeautifulThings #Flowers #TheLittleThings
#ColorADay #GreenSat #EastCoastKin #Photography #NaturePhotography #BrooklynBotanicGarden
Macro of a sunflower that has orange and yellow petals.
November 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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How is the government shut-down not the fault of the the party that controls both the White House and the Congress but that of their opponents?
October 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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#acrylic on paper: #hand-painted papers for future #collage
Cobalt blue plus phthalo green applied by brush Cobalt blue applied by brush and cadmium red applied by dripping and scraping with a pallet knife Ultramarine blue scrapped over drops of clear medium then dabbed with a mix of cobalt blue and cadmium red Cadmium red with a touch of cobalt blue and a large amount of clear medium applied with a palette knife
October 27, 2025 at 3:42 AM