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Debbie Caruana Dingli (b. 3 March 1962) is a Maltese portraitist and cartoonist mostly working with watercolour and oil paint.

Education
Caruana Dingli studied art at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in St Julian's, Malta under Margaret Chircop, wife of Maltese artist Alfred Chircop. She later obtained her A Level in Art at the Government School of Art in Malta under the auspices of artist Harry Alden. In 1980 she achieved a Diploma in Cartooning from the International Correspondence School in the UK. Other mentors included Raymond Pitre (Malta), Giuseppe Arcidiacono (Malta) and Patrick Barclay (Scotland).

Family
Caruana Dingli is the daughter of Mario and Bertha née Curmi. Born into a family of artists, she is the grand daughter of Robert Caruana Dingli, and grandniece of Edward Caruana Dingli.

Artistic Career
After finished her studies, Caruana Dingli took up watercolours where she felt that she could control the medium and produce great expressiveness within her artworks, especially once her main inspirations were people and their characters. This is also during the same time that Caruana Dingli worked as a graphic designer where she learnt necessary design techniques.

Caruana Dingli took on a more independent role where she remained away from the focal point of artists travelling abroad to further their artistic studies. An important event in Caruana Dingli's life is when she was approached by the late Dennis Vella to host her first solo exhibition at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Malta, nowadays known as MUŻA at Auberge d'Italie.