DEBORAH FIELDING, ARTIST & WRITER
At home wherever words, art, nature & rest connect, I make poems, stories, paintings and spaces for people to flourish. I hold an MA in Creative Writing as well as training and experience with EFL, pattern cutting, fashion making, calligraphy and visual art. Recently, keen to share space and facilitate therapeutic expression in others, I have been facilitating workshops in writing, lino printing, mark-making as well as sessions facilitating my Creative Companionship Circle and Quiet Garden Hours.
PUBLICATION & exhibition HIGHLIGHTS
July 2025 – Painting auctioned off for charities working in Palestine
Nov 2024 – Pop-up Exhibition of paintings at Where Two Rivers Meet Event in Newport Pagnell
Summer 2024 – A Fairytale Ending short story exhibited at MK Calling in MK Gallery.
Spring 2024 – Cutlery and Collect prayers for Ascensiontide at Priory Church Lancaster, a collaboration with Printmaker Rachel-Ann Powers.
2021-2022 Word & Art Subscription inspired by fairytales with illustrator Si Smith.
May & August 2022 Readings from OPENING, Scargill Community
January 2022 Poster ‘Please leave the door ajar’ exhibited as part of ‘Resolutions22’ at Big Shop Friday
Dec 2021 Book of short poems, OPENING published by St.Marks MK
Feb 2021 Five short stories commissioned by Pooleyville for passtheparcel publication
Dec 2020 Guest Blog post, A handful of Poems
Dec 2018-2020 Annual Very Short Story collaboration with illustrator Si Smith for Christmas.
May 2020 Guest Blog post, Please just leave the door ajar.
2019 The Suitcase Story copies went out with all with narrative clothing orders
Aug 2018 Jon Cooks Short story published by OCDAction
Aug 2017 The Suitcase installation exhibited at Greenbelt Arts Festival.
Jan 2016 Short fiction for Third Way Magazine – ‘An Old Story.’
Jul-Sept 2015 Large handmade short story pamphlet exhibited & read at MK Gallery.
Nov-Dec 2014 Handmade dress & story exhibited at ‘Clocking Off Works at MK Arts Centre.’
Aug 2014 Large-scale calligraphy pamphlet exhibited (as above) at Greenbelt Arts Festival.
participatory practice & facilitation
ASSOCIATE ARTIST and EVENT ASSISTANT with Milton Keynes Arts Centre (2025- )
SUPPORT ASSISTANT for Our Studio and Tactile Art Workshops at MK Gallery with IPA Team (2025- )
HISTORICAL EDUCATOR at Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre (2025- )
FOUNDER AND FACILITATOR of Creative Companionship Circle weekly online (2025- )
CREATIVE RETREAT FACILITATOR with Esther Thorpe of OrigamiEst (2025- )
VOLUNTEER ASSISTANT at
Art Together working with families from the Inclusive Practice in the Arts Programme. (Feb 2025)
CREATIVE RETREAT FACILITATOR with musician Sarah Watts at Cherished St Mary’s Women’s Group (Sept 2024)
ASSOCIATE ARTIST & ARTS FACILITATOR (poetry & stitching workshops & Gallery Tours) at MK Gallery’s, Something Less Boring, The Hapori (2021-)
QUIET GARDEN & RETREAT FACILITATOR – Quiet Garden Trust (2022-)
TEAM MEMBER & CRAFT WORKSHOP LEADER – The Field Camping Holiday (1998-present)
WRITER IN RESIDENCE PrayMK.com (2020-2022)
WRITER passtheparcel publication pooleyville.uk (2020)
DESIGNER & MAKER – Withnarrative Clothing (2018-2020)
HOUSE ASSISTANT
Cowper & Newton Museum (2017-2018)
ADMINISTRATOR Onya Bags, UK (2007-2017)
ADMIN & TEFL TEACHING (2003-2007)
EDUCATION & TRAINING
PROFESSIONAL INCLUSION TRAINING (Sight Loss Awareness Inclusive Practice Sharing, Sensory Tours and Trails) at MK Gallery (2023-2024)
FASHION PRODUCTION, PATTERN CUTTING & GARMENT MAKING Bedford College (2016-18)
DRAWING, PAINTING & CALLIGRAPHY Bucks Adult Learning (2008-2014)
MA CREATIVE WRITING (PROSE) UEA, Norwich (2005-2006)
CELTA COURSE, Oxford House College, London (2004)
BA HONS AMERICAN STUDIES, Lancaster University (2000-2003)