Deborah King graduated with honours from Hornsey School of Art in the mid-seventies. After working freelance for book and magazine publishers (Sunday Times, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, BBC publications etc.) her first book ‘Rook’ was published in 1980 with Hamish Hamilton. She has since produced many titles with Jonathan Cape, Random House and Harper Collins, securing numerous worldwide editions and translations.
Employed for many years as an art lecturer on BA and Foundation Courses in London and Dorset, Deborah has regularly exhibited her paintings, and on moving to Cornwall in 1998, set up her own publishing house, producing two works dedicated to the culture, ecology and Celtic links of Cornwall. She now lives and works in Boscastle.

'Working from the landscape is a multi-layered process, a journey of discovery, an excavation. It is about being still, being able to see beyond recognition, beyond the familiar beauty and structure.

Beneath the surface, lie centuries of myth and memory, the ancient messages that connect us to the heart and soul of a place. And Boscastle, with its Iron Age fort, Celtic stitches and medieval harbour has a long and colourful history.

Governed only by the elements, by the swings of ocean tide, it communicates at the deepest level, challenging the imagination, drawing us back again and again.'

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