THE CAPUCCINO BRIGADE
Debbie Caruana Dingli
September 2022
’The Cappuccino Brigade’ was Debbie Caruana Dingli’s ninth solo exhibition that showcased vibrant watercolour paintings executed a few months prior. Each quirky and witty cartoon-like watercolour tells a story in a simple yet effective way. The characters represented are based on Debbie Caruana Dingli'’s own observations of the native Maltese population whose gestures and features are amplified for greater effect. The starting point for this present collection stemmed from doodles that were created very naturally and unwittingly by Caruana Dingli at a worrying time. These doodles, executed with a biro and paper that were easily available to her, were a form of release, a release from a particularly stressful moment from which Debbie Caruana Dingli needed to escape, even if fleetingly. Debbie Caruana Dingli later came to realise that amongst these doodles there emerged a very strong Maltese element; this was the start of her next project and the theme of her next solo exhibition. Apart from being a renowned watercolourist, Debbie Caruana Dingli is an astute portraitist who also works in other media.
https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/us-maltese-exhibition-debbie-caruana-dingli.977990
https://issuu.com/artpaper/docs/artpaper_issue_19_issuu/s/16674016
