Born in England 1962. She grew up in Kinvara.
1988 - Diploma Galway Art College.
Recent exhibition "Horse", NorthCote Gallery, London; "Chimaera", Linehall Arts Centre, Castelbar.
Collections: The Art Council.
Private Collections: Ireland, Europe.

Debi o'Hehir makes use of the figurative horse as a vehicle for emotional expression, both through sculpture and drawing.
The horse is a medium rather than a symbol. Its pose and stance reflect O'Hehir's current preoccupation, even obsession with the emotions, memories, hopes and feelings which create the narrative of her grief. Through the archetypal and mythic figure, which is the horse, she exploits the transformational potential of the work to help her move from shadows and sadness trough vulnerability and fragility to the repossession of the "fleeting, lighthearted and whimsical side of the spirit".