Deborah Vass

Moths are the perfect, obliging models, who sleep during the day.  I take two or three into my studio to identify and draw, where they remai

This Spring I became smitten with tulips and here I explain how I became beguiled by these elegant beauties.

My new exhibition at Penny Morrison Interiors of botanically inspired paintings that chart the flowers of Spring.

I have been beavering away these last few weeks and can now announce that a selection of my drawings and paintings are being shown at The Town House Gallery in Spitalfields, a beautiful early 18th century townhouse, near Liverpool Street Station. You see the display on their Instagram feed. All the work is arranged above the gallery's Nature Table and so my drawings and oil paintings showing insects, seed pods, moths, butterflies and wildflowers are in the spirit of this. You

Those of you who follow me on Instagram and Twitter will know that I am rather partial to moths. The hot, still summer days of the past few weeks has meant there has been an abundance of moths in my garden and each day I have been drawing my new discoveries. You can see the results on my sketchbook pages on my website. I am delighted that this article has appeared in the Summer edition of The Suffolk Argus, the magazine of the Butterfly Conservation Charity.http://www.suffolk