Deb Wood aka DAWood

visual artists
Written By Angela Hoskins

Introducing the art and artists of Coochiemudlo

DAWood My White Girl Story, Mixed Media on Canvas, 176 x 176 cm 

Riding the ebb and flow of creative ‘mojo’, artist DAWood keeps her eyes open to the small treasures and rich subject matter of the island. 

Art practice and skills development have been an ongoing feature of DAWood’s life. Whilst living in Brisbane, Deb Wood’s free flowing approach to art-making gained confidence and inspiration through the example and advice of an enthusiastic and experimental artist neighbor. 

Deb Wood calls her type of art ‘Moodism’, allowing mood and other intuitive triggers to unfold across her canvas in rich free flowing narratives of images, symbols, patterns and mixed media textures, often surprising herself with what emerges from out of the energy of the creative process. 

DAWood is a member of the Coochiemudlo Artisans’ Collective and believes that art plays an important role in island life and well being, uniting community by building friendships, sharing creative ideas and showcasing island talents.

Curlew Artisan Gallery and Ross Street Gallery on Coochiemudlo Island open 10am – 2pm, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Angela Hoskins

Built my first site in 2000 and steadily learned what it takes to make websites work. Dabbled in WordPress back then, still do. Since building my first Squarespace site in 2016, I’ve been impressed with the relatively streamlined approach to website design and development that Squarespace offers compared to WordPress. SEO was a major challenge from the start — I’ve spent a lot of time keeping up with what’s required to get sites working, ranking well on a SERP. I have confidence with what Squarespace offers for SEO.

Having worked for more than 10 years in the web team of an inland, regional university in Australia and dealing with frustrations that come with working for a large corporate enterprise, the idea of setting up my own web design business became my goal.

Set up my business in late 2017. Opted for a sea change, too: I now live on Coochiemudlo Island 45 minutes from Brisbane. Love working from home. Love working for small business clients. Still get casual work with the university.

Challenges? The main one is pricing my work for small businesses. Doing quality work, doing the research to be up to date in the industry, takes time; it’s hard to factor in this time to my pricing while being competitive in the market and affordable for many small businesses.

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