Returning Home

Birds have become my storytellers.
Their familiar presence allows me to tell deeply human stories without painting people.
Returning Home centres on a magpie suspended in the moment before landing. For me, it's a hopeful moment, the opposite of being lost.
It is the instant where flight ends and belonging begins.
The work explores the feeling of finding your way back: to home, to those we love, or to ourselves.
Through layered marks, light and movement, I wanted to capture that quiet moment of arrival, where uncertainty gives way to connection.

Dimensions of Canvas: 120cm wide x 180cm high x 3.5cm deep
Dimensions Framed: 123cm wide x 183cm high x 5.5cm deep Natural Oak Raw Timber floating frame
Weight: Approx. 13kg

Note: Due to the size/weight hardware has been installed on the rear, and the painting will need hang directly onto the wall not on a wire.

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Deborah Lang is a self-taught Australian artist whose distinctive works are held in private collections throughout Australia and internationally. Named a Bluethumb Top 100 artist, recent highlights include two works from her Snapshots of Summer collection being acquired together for an interior project in Manhattan.

Also known as Debstar, Deborah works from her home-based Brisbane studio.

She’s a mixed-media artist known for her bright colours and works on book pages.

Exploring textures and playing with different mediums and subjects is how she keeps her zest for creativity!

Her subjects pop from canvases oozing with texture. Her paintings are varied as she takes inspiration from the world around her, especially drawing on the simplicity and beauty of the everyday.

Her latest collection under Lumière features works on wood panel, crafted to evoke a symphony of light, texture and emotion with a sense of quiet luxury.

Each piece captures a moment suspended in abstraction. Rich textures, layered pigments and subtle metallics evoke movement, mood and introspection.

At the end of the day, she just wants people to smile when they look at her work.

“A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.”
— Leonardo da Vinci