Deborah Thompson – installation shot Door in the Sky / Tales – Touchstones Nelson
Hide o/c 52″x48″
Owl w/Phallus o/c 60″x 48″ 2007
Herd o/c 60″x49″
Boom, Boom o/c diptych 100″x 60″ 2002
Red Sulfur
Deborah Thompson
49″x 60″
detail of Red Sulfur
Deborah Thompson
untitled
Deborah Thompson
oil on canvas
60″x 49″
Bending Home o/c 48″x44″
figurative drawing
graphite on paper
48″ x 56″
2002
Aviary Mixed media/paper 18″x 24″
Turbulent Heart mixed media on vellum/acetate 24″x30″
Tree of Life mixed media on vellum and acetate
Hare graphite/rice paper 16″x 12″
Two Clouds Mixed Media on paper 36″ x 40″
Two Clouds Mixed Media and collage /paper36″x 44″
Cloud charcoal /paper 30″ x 24″
Seed Pod II Graphite/paper with Glasseine 18″ x 24″
Frog Mixed Media/vellum18″x 24″
Fire Ants o/c 49″x 49″2010
Jade Cat o/c 48″x52″ 2010
Door in the Sky o/c 48″x 56″2010
Ascencion o/c 57″x 49″ 2010
The Crossing o/c 49″x49″2010
Owl and King o/c 48″ x 49″ 2010
Capricorn’s Goat dt of Triptych oic 44″x 44″ 2010
Black Boot o/c 48″x 52″ 2010
Bird Woman o/c 46″x 45″ 2013
Bird Man
o/c 2002
Fisherman’s Tale o/c 2004
Generations
o/c 2002
Holding
o/c 2002
Sybil
o/c 2006
Four men o/c 2002
Untitled on yellow o/c 2003
Deborah Thompson
Cow and Fish Eye
oil on canvas
48″x49″ 2006
Deborah Thompson
Tundra
oil on canvas
2014
52″x49″
Rubedo – Touchstones Nelson 2012
white dresses – 2010
white dress – beeswax, thread, rice paper 2010
Nigredo installation view
Touchstones Nelson 2012
Nigredo – installation view Touchstones Nelson 2012
Installation view
Nigredo dresses
Touchstones Nelson
2012
Installation view Touchstones Nelson 2012
Sewing Rubedo – Gallery Gachet Vancouver 2010
Coming Forth by Day
Workshop Gallery
Gachet Vancouver 2010
Stop Making Sense
detail
mixed media on canvas
2016
Research at Royal BC MusuemBird ArchivesYellow Warbler drawer2014
sculptural work
Stop Making Sense series
oil on canvas
20×20″
2016
Stop Making Sense series
detail of painting
2016
Stop Making Sense series
Work in progress
mixed media on canvas
49″ x49″
2016
Stop Making Sense
clay head for casting
2016
Stop Making Sense series
Clay head for casting
2016
Research at Royal BC MuseumBird Archives2013
Burning of Altar
Deborah Thompson
Flame and Coming Forth by Day
Gallery Gachet
Vancouver, BC
2010
Exhibition view
Maters Familias
by Kathy Hoffman
Oxygen Art Center
2015
Clay Head
Aorta Man detail
clay, paint, varnish
18″ h
2013
Aorta Man
untitled clay head
clay, paint, varnish
18″ high
2013
Trickster mixed media/paper 18″x24″
Vulture o/c 48″ x 56″ 2014
Rubedo – Touchstones Nelson 2010
Work in progress
Work in progress
Shiva from StopMakingSense
mixed media
52×49″ 2016
Death mask
unfired clay
2013
Swans o/c 48″x52″ 2012
Eulogy detail
Hands in prayer
Hare/water detail o/c 2014
Hare/water dtl o/c 2014
Studio
Living in Nelson
seed pod
oil bar on vellum
24″x26″ 2016
Seed Pod II
oil bar and charcoal on paper
24″x36″ 2016
ROW installation view of Julie Castonguay’s
ROW Patrick Stone Spawn
ROW installation view Touchstones Nelson
ROW video installation by Nancy Rosenblum
ROW Julie Castonguay
ROW Installation Karen Rice
ROW Tanya Pikie Johnson
SALT project Ephemeral Julie Castonguay 2009
SALT project Julie Castonguay installation view 2009
SALT Project Installation view
SALT project detail of Haruko Okano
SALT project Haruko Okano installation
SALT project
Day of the Dead
Community Workshop
2009
THIRST Mary Babcock “Gilnet Tapestry” 2014
THIRST Mary Babcock “Gilnet Tapestry”
THIRST Vaughn Bell “Thinking Caps”
THIRST Vaughn Bell “Thinking Caps” 2014
ROW project Chris Welsby “Waterfall” installation in gallery B
SALT project detail of POEM Nicole Dextras
SALT project detail of POEM Nicole Dextras
SALT project Nicole Dextras POEM outside the gallery, casting removed.
ROW Installation view with historic row boat from the Museum’s collection in foreground
ROW Project artist Pat Field’s Spawn and installation with archival baptismal dresses in background
ROW project Installation view
ROW project
Pat Field and Nancy Rosenblum
installation view
2010
ROW project
Julie Castonguay installation w/
Boukje Elzinga paintings in background
2010
ROW Project
Karen Rice installation view
2010
Salt Project Curator’s talk 2009
Salt Project Haruko Okano 2008
in progress Acrylic and Oil on Canvas 46″ x 48″ 2016
Passion Clouds series
Eulogy
oil on canvas
48″x 60″
2016
Horizon Line series
acrylic and oil on canvas
46″x44″ 2016
Reworked older piece with stencils
detail: Stop Making Sense
Thirst: CRT
Toma Villa
Paddling with Raven
Birdman
oil on canvas
2010
Artist talk on medieval mysticism 2013
Adam’s Rib o/c 2007
Bachus o/c 2006
Bastet’s Song
o/c 2006
Poppy field o/c 2006
Hare and fruit o/c 2006
Sybil o/c 2006
The World is flat x3 o/c 2006
Nourishment o/c 2006
Ovid
o/c 2006
Renewal
mixed media on vellum 2013
RBCM research trip
2014
Studio preparing drawings for exhibit 2013
detail: Stop Making Sense
Horizon Line Series
Work in Progress
Coupling Pairs
2016 – in progress
Ski cabin
Winter 2017
polyfigure
clay figure to be cast
Woman / Man Axis
Porcelain 2016
detail: Theater of Voices
Drinnon Lakes
Like Cures Like
mixed media on canvas
2016
Horizon LIne- Inside Outside 2017
Horizon Line – Inside Outside 2017
Design for sculptural piece
DT2017
installation shot Kootenay Gallery
2017
Yellow Christ for Gauguin
Kootenay Gallery 2017
armature fun
Building a new piece
150 Creative Acts Kootenay Gallery 2017
Nascent from Horizon Line Series
2017
House of Confinement
2018 mixed media on canvas
Work in progress
detail of House of Confinement
Pan-dulum
Installation view
Installation view
2018
studio drawing 2018
Installation view of pandulums 2018
Pandulums and paintings
Pan-dulum exhibition
Pan-dulum exhibition
The Nightmare triptych 2018
Pan-dulums swinging
Kootenay Gallery exhibition Pandulum 2018
The Nightmare triptych
Left panel 2018
The Nightmare triptych
Right panel 2018
The Nightmare Triptych
Hope and fear
Centre panel 2018
Like Cures Like
2018
Prophesy stag wo man
2018
Reason Dazzled
2018
Animality of Madness
Armed for unreason 2018
Flying Witches
Escape
Night Flight 2018
Inscape 2018
Screaming Goat (unchained reason)
Pan’s Hares
2018
Doe man
Companion – Predator
2018
Companion – 2018
Companion
companion
face study
ceramic paint 2016
SONY DSC
Assemblage 2017
plaster, clay, foam
Figurative assemblage 2017
figurative study
plastercene foam 2017
Figurative assemblage 2017
Hungry Ghosts 2018 mixed media
Pandulum installation view 2018
Kootenay Gallery of Art Castlegar, BC
Assemblage
Work in progress
Facial study
2016 Tumeric, Wax, clay
Pandulm installation view
2018 Kootenay Gallery of Art
Entrance to Pandulum
A Call to Unreason 2018
Study detail
2017
Study in progress
plaster, foam, clay, crystal
Study
foam, paint, found material, plaster, string, wax, clay
in progress
detail of study
on going
Figurative study
clay, foam 2017
Gallery 2 installation view of
Pandulum: a Call to Unreason
2019
Gallery 2 Grand Forks 2019
Pandulums Galley 2
installation view 2019
Gallery 2 Statement
Grand Forks, 2019
Installation view Gallery Two 2019
Pandulum exhibition 2019
A Call to Unreason
Gallery 2 exhibition view 2019
The Nightmare: Hope and Fear
Gallery 2 Grand Forks 2019
detail Pandulum
Pandulums in Gallery 2 2019
Gallery 2 , GF 2019
Gallery 2 exhibition Pandulums 2019
Pandulum: a Call to Unreason
Gallery 2, Grand Forks 2019
Drawings and paintings
Gallery 2 invite 2019
exploring materials
Working with ideas
animal casting
exploring form and materials
earth, charred wood and paper
untitled
untitled 2018
Conversation with Curator Tim van Wijk and artist Stephanie Kellet at Gallery 2 , Grand Forks, 2019
Displaced 2019
Black Sun 2019 26″x30″
Egress (detail ) 2019
Somewhere Between 2019 26″x 40″
Displaced (detail) 2019
Untitled (Hare) Graphite, ink and paper on paper 2019 43″X 46″
Work in progress
Studio work in progress for Once We Were Whole
Out of the earthen body 2019 22″x 36″
Once We Were Whole
detail of centre panel
Cut paper on paper 60″x56″
2020
Astral Night – Kore
Kore – detail of face
graphite om paper 2020
detail of face from Dawn
Left panel of Once We Were Whole
2020
Detail of left panel of Once We Were Whole 2021 Graphite, cut paper on paper
Deborah Thompson
Detail from right panel of Once We Were Whole. 2020
Cut paper, graphite on paper
35″ x 55″
Coitus
2020 graphite, white ink, cut paper
on paper 46″ x 50″
Coitus – detail
2020
Graphite, white ink, cut paper on paper 46″ x 50″
Astral Night left panel 2020 48 ” x 55″
Astral Night – detail
2020
Working on cutouts for Langham Show 2020
Astral Night – detail 2024
Between 2019
Ink, cut paper on Yupo Paper 36″ x 36″
Black Sun from Between
2019 Ink and cut paper on Yupo paper 26″ x 30″
Etherial Hare 2019 30″ x 44″
Untitled 2019 44″ x 47″
Centre Panel for Once We Were Whole 2020
Cut paper on paper 60″ x 55″
Detail of Centre panel from Once We Were Whole 2021
Dawn 2021 Graphite, cut paper on paper 35″ x 55″
Dusk – detail
Right panel of Once We Were Whole
Graphite, cut paper on paper
Astral Night
2020 Graphite, ink, glasseine, cut paper on paper 83″ x 55″
Astral Night – detail
Astral Night 2024 Left panel Cut paper, ink, Glasseine on paper 60″ x 55″
Astral Night – detail from Kore
Astral Night Detail
Reptile Formed
2019 graphite, cut paper on paper
36″ X 48″
Between
2019 ink, Charcoal, cut paper on Yupo Paper 26″ x 30″
Between 2019
Ink, charcoal, cut paper on Yupo paper 26″ x 40″
Reptile Formed – detail
2019
Graphite, cut paper on paper
Ape
2018
graphite, oil on paper 18″x24″
Dawn – left panel from Once We Were Whole 2021 Graphite, cut paper on paper 35″ x 55″
detail of Stop Making Sense
Stop Making Sense
48″x50″ oil on canvas 2017
detail of Stop Making Sense
clay piece untitled
2016
Untitled from Pandulum
detail
Relics from Pandulum
20×20″ oil on canvas 2017
Untitled
Bronze 8″ w x 18″ h 2016
Lava Girl 2021 graphite, chalk, ink on paper 44″ x 60″
Detail of Lava Girl
Detail of Lava Girl
Making Kin 2021 graphite, chalk, ink, rice paper and cut papers on paper 48″ x 58″
Messengers 2021 graphite and cut paper on paper 38″ x 58″
Face study
Making Kin – detail
Slider 2021 graphite, chalk on paper 60″ x60″
Compromise 2021 26″ x 30″
Chew on it 2021 26″x 30″
Inky works 2021
Some sort of digesting 2021 18″ x 24″
Emergent Thought 2021 26″x 30″
Hare #2 2021 15″x 24″
Hare
2021
graphite on newsprint
18″ x 24″
Untitled (girl with head band)
2021
graphite on newsprint
20″x 20″
Untitled (girl with hair do)
2021
graphite on newsprint
16″ x 20″
Soul Working 2021 26″x30″
Maquette study 2021 18″ x 24″
Maquette Series painting 2021 44″ x 46″
Paleo-Creature 2021 18″ x 24″
Girl with head band 2021 20″ x 20″
Taking it all in
2021
Still forming
Rising up from Temple series 2021 8″ x 11″
Water Temple
2021
ink, oil bar and graphite on watercolour paper
10″ x 20″
Source of Life from Ankor Wat series 2021 12″ x 20″
On Watch from Ankor Wat 2021 12″ x 16″
Bird Man (third eye)
2008
oil on canvas 48″x 52″
selection of assemblages
THURST Mary Babcock “Gilnet Tapestry”detail
THURST Mary babcock
ROW installation view of Julie Castonguays’ Waterfall with Bouk Elzinga’s paintings in background.
ROW paintings by Karen Rice
Sitka Centre – Spit biting the Of the Forest plate 2021
Sitka Centre- Of the Sea Plate in acid bath
2021
Print studio with Julia D’Amario
Cascade Head from the beach
Confluence of Salmon River and Pacific Ocean – Sitka Centre
Red Shafted Flicker 2022 Graphite and oil bar
Mergenser 2022 Graphite and oil bar
Grey Heron 2022 Graphite and oil bar
Surf Scooter 2022 Graphite and oil bar
Turkey Vulture 2022 Graphite and oil bar
Crow 2022 Graphite and oil bar
Robin 2022 Graphite and oil bar
Still from stop motion animation video – Ritual
Still from stop motion animation video – Ritual
Scene of Deathwalks doing Mediation
Detail of right panel
Video Still
Night Ritual
w/ Psychopomp
yoga scene
Animation material from Night Ritual video @ 60″ x 72″ 2023
Video Still
Night Ritual
w/Psychopomp
meditation scene
Video still
Night Ritual
Video Still from Midden
Video Still from Midden
Vesuvia ( Spectral Companions) 2024
Assembling Amulet for an Anchoress
Material for Midden
drawn and cut paper
puppet
Detail hand printed
components for
cloak of bones
Detail of Left panel
Slither 2024 Graphite, chalk, paper on paper mounted 60″x56″
Right panel of Astral Night 2024
Video Still
from Midden
Cloak of Bones scene
Installing of Boat without a Boat in Reid Gallery at Grand Forlks Art Gallery, Grand Forks, BC 2024
Gush ( Water Carrier) 2024 Graphite, oil bar, chalk, paper on Stonehenge paper support 42″ x 76″
Detail from Pure Colour (What do we know about Angels)
Detail from Pure Colour 2024
Video Still from NIght Ritual -Constellation Scene
Video still from Night Ritual – Cosmos scene
Video Still from Night Ritual Stop Motion Animation video 10:28 HD 2024
Diptych – Astral Night 2024
Preparing Reptile body
for animation in
Midden video
Detail of Gush (Water Carrier)
Detail from Of Sea and Earth
Detail from Slither
Detail from Amulet for an Anchoress
Amulet for an Anchoress 2024
Graphite, oil bar,
chalk, cut papers
49″ x 84″
Of Sea and Earth 2023 Graphite, ink, rice paper, paper mounted on paper backing 54’x 64″
Detail of face from Amulet
detail from Pure Colour
In Studio Detail from Pure Colour
Installation view with Vesuvia on the landing
Video installation of Night Ritual in West Gallery
Opening night performances by Psychompomps – Meditation scene.
Psychopomp on the move!
Installation view with Amulet for an Anchoress and Astral Night
Opening night performance by psychopomps with Amulet for an Anchoress in the background.
Trickster in action!
video still
from Midden
– Flood Scene
installation image with Astral Night diptych and Midden (video)
View of Vesuvia from inside the gallery looking towards the landing.
Installation view of landing in Grand Forks Art Gallery with installation of works.
Slither installed in stair case entrance.
installation of
SMA video
Midden
2024
3m
HD
original score:
Graham Tracey
Installtion of
SMA video
Night Ritual
10m29s
HD
original score:
Graham Tracey
Psychopomp mediatation scene from Night Ritual.
Still from
SMA video
Night Ritual.
Video still
Night Ritual
Watching stop motion animation video Midden with a friend.
installation view taken by Kenton Doupe.
Installation view with Astral Night, Midden video and Vesuvia in background taken by Kenton Doupe.
Pure Colour: What do we know about Angels installed in Grand Forks Art Gallery
Installation view of Constellations: Pure Colour, Black Sun and Boat without a Boat
Installation view of exhibition with Pure Colour, Gush, Earth and Sea.
Panorama shot by Kenton Doupe of Boat without a Boat exhibition GFAG 2024
Across the landing with title wall/ Vesuivia and triptych: Once We Were Whole in the stairwell.
Video Midden installed at GFAG
Entering the Gallery with a long view of diptych: Boat without a Boat.
One of the early works on paper that was hung in the stairwell at GFAG outside of Exhibition, Boat without a Boat.
Talking trees with Gwen MacGregor at her artist talk at Grand Forks Art Gallery 2024
Untitled (Vein)
Leda
opening night performance
installation view of
Boat without a Boat
NMAG
installation of
Boat without a Boat
NMAG
Song of the Moth
triad
Seeing through stone
Carol Wallace
2026
Detail of two sisters
Marnie Temple
2025
Exhibition view of LOOT: Orienting to Matter
installation photo by Kenton Doupe
LOOT: Orienting to Matter
at the Langham Cultural Centre, Kaslo, BC
installation of Maggie Shirley’s Little Swimmers
2026
Installation view
Genevieve Roberston’s Fireweed and Maggie Shirley’s Little Swimmers
2026
Old Growth Forest Meditation 2026
Hildur Jonasson
detail of stitched prints
Seven Unguents
2025
graphite, acrylic ink, vellum, cut paper
60″x72″
Dameon
2026
Graphite, pencil crayon, cut paper
45″x86″
Eyes of Consumption
(Song of the Moth)
2026
Graphite, pencil
crayon, cut paper
48″x 82″
Shedding
2026
graphite, acrylic ink,
chalk, acetate,
cut paper
41″x79″
Portal
2025
graphite, vellum, was, acrylic ink, cut paper
54″x78″
Gallery view of Portal and Black Sun
NMAG 2025
Pale Fire
2025
Graphite, chalk, acrylic ink, acetate, vellum, charcoal, cut papers
120″ x 76″
Song of the Moth
Triad
graphite, pencil crayon, chalk, acrylic ink, acetate, cut papers
118″ x 80″
Opening night
Performance
Nelson Museum, Archives and Gallery
2025
Gylphs and Grammar
Susan Andrews Grace
2026
Detail of bat house
Pyrography by Jim Holyoak
2026
Detail of rust stains from Glyphs and Grammar
2026
Susan Andrews Grace
LOOT: Orienting to Matter
close up of powders and rust objects
Materials and process gallery
Langham Cultural Centre, Kaslo, BC
Old Growth Forest Meditation
Hildur Jonasson
2026
Sea Pot no. 3
Eimear Laffan
2026
Detail of Sea Pot poem
Eimear Laffan
2026
Exhibition Poster
Boat without a Boat
Leda and the Swan 2025graphite and cut paper19″ x22″
detail of Vine
Opening performance
with three dancers
wearing Psychopomp
puppet heads
2025
Nelson Museum, Archive and Gallery
detail from Pale Fire
detail from Pale Fire
Nelson Studio
2024
Work in progress
for NMAG show
Pure Colour 2024
detail from Pure Colour
Vine
2026
Graphite, pencil
crayon, cut paper
26″x 69″
