Deborah Wace has been a practicing botanical artist, fabric designer and professional printmaker for more than 30 years. Based now in Cygnet, her artistry is inspired by creating designs that amplify the beauty of Tasmania’s wild and often endangered plants.

Deborah’s exclusive designs are influenced by the European botanical collections of early French expeditions to Tasmania and are available across a range of luxury fabrics, fashion accessories, soft furnishings, wallpaper, and limited-edition art; incorporating sustainable print and production processes where possible.

Deborah has created a digitised, element library of 200+ distinctly Tasmanian pressed rare and endangered plant specimens linked to Australia’s botanical historical record. She combines these pressed plant images with drypoint (scribing onto an acrylic printmaking plate) and mono-print original artwork and etchings, which she digitally layers to create rich, complex botanical designs onto fine fabric, wallpaper and a range of architectural substrates.

Deborah’s botanical artistry, designs and marketing materials all communicate the need to protect our fragile land-based and marine ecosystems to the wider community, amplifying the work being done by the scientific community - bringing Art together with Science.

Deborah’s ultimate goal is to create real conversations about habitat loss and biodiversity, inviting a deeper and more informed and sustainable connection into our natural world.