Deb Nagan makes environmental installations and paintings.

For decades she has drawn daily, both part of her design practice as a landscape architect and on personal themes. Her practice in water-based mixed media depicts geography, biodiversity, river-life, the decline of nature, weather and water-state and a tendency to fall in whilst single-sculling.

Nagan has made large-scale installations, ‘conceptual gardens’, in the UK, Canada, France, Luxembourg and Saudi Arabia. This work is based in land art traditions,  but also incorporates her professional knowledge to include biodiversity replenishment, adding planting and connecting to the soil. She explores the deep palimpsest of place, extracting history, geology, climate and societal meaning to create site-specific work.

Smaller-scale studio collections reflect this theme, and boxed works of artefacts, photographic and painted images recreate a personal response to places visited. Her travels to remote, often bleak places and to cities, has informed her work.

Nagan is a Design Council Built Environment Expert and a fellow of the RSA.

CURRENT

Her first exhibition shows work on paper:

OPEN STUDIO November 2025

                   Ice: After seeing icebergs in Greenland, Newfoundland and Iceland (2010,2021, 2024)

                   Biodiversity: layered mixed media works

                   River Work: Dynamic paintings on handmade paper

                  Cornwall to New York: Travels in 2025

PREVIOUS

INSTALLATIONS

The Concrete Garden 2002, Westonbirt, Gloucestershire, UK

Fritillus 2007, Heinerscheid, Luxembourg

Forest 2009, Waterloo SE1, UK

Souvent Me Souviens 2013-2019, Installation, Ste Flavie, Quebec

Every Garden Needs A Shed 2009-2013, Installation, Jardins de Metis, Quebec

How Green Is Your Garden? 2017, Toronto, Canada

Banlieue 2014-2017, Amiens France