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College in North Vancouver, she spent a semester in the bronze foundry housed in the sculpture department, casting and forging the metal work herself. She enjoyed the collaborative aspect of the processes needed to pull it all together, with support from the instructor and from several artists in the Okanagan.
Unexpected opportunities arose for Deborah to assist other sculptors with their monumental jade commissions. Starting in 1996, she travelled to Ireland to lend a hand with the Oscar Wilde famous writer and poet was an amazing multi media sculpture. Many pieces of different stone, some being gemstones (jade & thulite) were into place. Danny Osborne, the artist who was granted this commission from Guinness & Co., is a master ceramicist, painter and sculptor. Deborah was given the 3 piece jade smoking jacket to work on. The jade
A few years later, a call came to her from a collector in Washington State to assist an Inuit sculptor with his 7,000 pound jade sculpture. So off she went to Coppermine (Kugluktuk) in the month of December to assist with this daunting project.
Another job assisting others took place closer to home, in the jade yard belonging to Jade West in South Surrey B.C. It was the working site for the creation of Ovation. The commissioned sculptor was Fahcheong Chong, or Pius Chong as he is known outside of his native Singapore. There were 2 jade boulders, with yin and yang energies very
strongly evident from the beginning of the project. Happily she was given the yin boulder to carve. Three years later, Deborah was able to visit the installed Ovation at a restored heritage building in Singapore presently used by the University of Chicago.
This was all good timing as the Okanagan Thompson International Sculpture Symposium, OTISS 2002 was held the next year. Twenty artists from around the world were chosen by committees in eight
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