Debra Tate-Sears is a watercolour artist whose Romantic compositions are based on an interpretation of "the picturesque" in the pastoral landscape of South Eastern Ontario and in the streets and back lanes of Kingston. Debra's unique approach to the watercolour medium is influenced by early 19th century British watercolourists John Sell Cotman and Thomas Girtin . Although Debra uses a precise, analytical examination of the components of landscape elements and the fundamentals of the "Romantic" composition, her work is perceived as more "painterly" than contrived, and the result is a composition that is often brooding, forbidding, and at the same time, strangely inviting."