Deb Michell-Smith is a regional Australian artist based in rural New South Wales. Her practice is grounded in drawing and painting, with a strong focus on storytelling through landscape and portraiture. Working primarily in acrylic on canvas, Deb is drawn to the quiet patterns of place like roads, trees, waterways and agricultural land and how people move through and live alongside them.

Deeply connected to regional Australia, her work explores themes of resilience, belonging and the passage of time. Repetition, line and pattern play an important role in her paintings, echoing the marks made by weather, work and human presence on the land.

Deb regularly exhibits across regional and metropolitan galleries. She works from her rural home studio, where the surrounding landscape continues to inform and inspire her practice.

DRAWING THE JOURNEY - Along the Way

Draw with the Artist: A Guided Drawing Experience with Deb Michell-Smith

Saturday 21 February 2026 @ 12 noon @ Weswal Gallery BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL limited spots, all materials supplied, no experience necessary.

EXHIBITION Along The Way

2 February - 28 February 2026

Deb Michell-Smith

Along The Way is a collection of landscape paintings inspired by time spent moving through the Tasman Peninsula in Tasmania. The works focus on roads, paths, waterways and tree-lined edges. The quiet in-between spaces that guide us forward and encourage us to slow down.

Rather than depicting a fixed destination, these paintings reflect the experience of travelling through landscape: the way light shifts, how the land opens and closes around you, and the small moments that linger along the journey. Repetition, line and pattern are used to suggest movement, memory and the steady presence of place.

This exhibition is about noticing the feeling of being carried by the landscape as you pass through it, and how, along the way, the land leaves its mark on you just as you leave yours on it.