deanne
eccles

ABOUT DEANNE:

Deanne Eccles gained a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, from Latrobe University, Bendigo in 1993. In 1999 her focus moved to theatre and movement. Her exploration into colour and atmosphere through movement and expression began to bring about an awareness of what she now calls ‘sense perceptive response’.

Deanne continued to explore and understand how atmosphere can communicate to the audience on deeper level.

She became a student of the Body Weather practice and trained under the Japanese Artist and pioneer of Body Weather Dance, Min Tinaka. She also trained with the Sydney based Body Weather artist Tess De Quincey. Her theatre and movement explorations lead her to connect and train with Helen Sharp and John Howard - Body Voice Work by Ilse Middendorf.

Deanne incorporated this understanding of movement into theatre shows as well as her paintings.

Deanne continue her studies into colour in Venice and Switzerland from 2005-06. After this Deanne lived in Turkey and Spain studying movement and colour.

Since moving back to Australia and the Yarra Valley in 2008 Deanne and husband Toby, run Strathvea Guest House. Deanne is very active in the community, fighting to protect the beautiful temperate forest surrounding her, via the Knitting Nanna’s of Toolangi.

In 2013 she returned to her studio reconnecting with her colour work as an abstract colourist painter, deriving her techniques from her time in Europe as well as her theatre/dance work.

Medium: painting, theatre, movement
Tags: atmosphere, music, abstract painting, colourist, theatre, dance