Deborah graduated from Wolverhampton Polytechnic with a Bachelor of Arts Honours Degree in 3-dimensional design, specialising in ceramics .

Setting up her studio in 1982, she developed her technique of slip-casting complex figures and animals in terracotta, then later in bronze and cold cast bronze. Exhibiting her work at craft fairs and selling through several galleries for many years, her ranges of figures and animals became increasingly collectable.

Deborah's Studio is now a converted cattle shed at her farmhouse in the Cotswolds Here she has made large pieces in plaster and straw, painstakingly casting them herself into resin composite finished pieces. For sculptures to be cast in bronze she makes the waxes for the lost wax process instead. Her sculptures range from tiny to over life-size.