Autumn in the Slad Valley
Deborah Cox,winner of The 2023 Laurie Lee Prize for Literature,is an artist as well as a writer. Her work emanates from a sense of place, namely Gloucestershire,where she grew up.
Her response to the landscape,using waterbased media is immediate,expressive and visceral. Having grown up in a village with ‘roses round the door’,she is not concerned with the Romantic or Picturesque but with the unseen; the non visible.In both her writing and painting she explores issues of family dysfuction,intensive farming and river pollution.
