Debbie Goldsmith (b. 1969) is a British artist known for her large-scale abstract paintings and hand-tufted textile works that respond to landscape, colour, and texture. Her practice bridges painting and textile, with recent work drawing inspiration from the natural environments of the North West and the North Wales coastline.

Goldsmith studied Fine Art at Coventry Polytechnic, where she developed her foundations in painting and drawing. She is currently based in Cheshire, where she maintains an active studio practice. In 2001, she was commissioned by Manchester Art Gallery to create new work, and that same year her paintings were selected for the restaurant and atrium of the Lowry Hotel in Manchester as part of its original interior design scheme.

Her textile work, developed during the pandemic, evolved from a desire to reconnect with materiality and surface. Using dead stock Axminster wool sourced from a mill in Halifax, Goldsmith creates hand-tufted rugs based on her abstract paintings—unique, richly textured pieces that function as both floor and wall-based landscapes.

Goldsmith’s work has been exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, including at Manchester Art Gallery, the British Council in São Paulo, the London Art Fair, and Salford Museum & Art Gallery. She has held solo exhibitions at venues such as the Wendy J Levy Gallery and Comme Ca Art at the Lowry Hotel. Her work has also appeared in group exhibitions with Gallery 54, The Salt Museum, and at Goosfest’s “Art in the Barn.”

She has been featured in publications including Cheshire Life (November 2022), Surrey Homes, and the book A Colourful Canvas: Twelve Women Artists in the North West (2006). Her work also features in The Manchester Review and The Reluctant Engineer and Other Manchester Stories.