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During the ten
years since graduating Diana has been commissioned for many watercolour
and oil paintings. She has paintings and drawings in private
collections in Britain and in France. She has taken part in group
exhibitions and had her own solo exhibition at Archie Browns, Penzance.
She is presently a member of Creftow, an artists’ and craft persons’
co-operative in Helston.
Diana has lived
in West Cornwall for most of her life were she brought up a family,
graduating in 1999 from Falmouth College of Arts (now University
College, Falmouth) In her often detailed paintings she takes pleasure
in depicting the form, colour and texture of things around her.
Drawing has always been a very important part of this and when painting
in oils she tends to start from a certain point, ‘sculpting’ the
emerging three-dimensional painting around it.
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She has
been asked on several occasions to do ‘portraits’ of wedding
shoes, having done her daughter’s and son-in-law’s.
After
drawing in ink and watercolour various local ‘scenes’ she felt
dissatisfied and thought she would try something new. First of
all she drew and then painted the houses in Perranuthnoe where
she lives, cut them out and collaged them, arranging a new way
of looking at the village. Then, always having loved Chapel
Street in Penzance, where she had her first job in Cornwall, she
decided to try the same method, resulting in ‘Chapel Street’ on
the west side, depicting in minute detail all the interesting
architecture, good and bad! Making a pair, Diana then drew and
painted the east side, ‘Chapel Street Too’. They now reside in
the bar of the Union Hotel, in Chapel Street.
Her
influences are many – but she has always rejoiced in the
comparisons of repetition, and her first were a series of 13
pairs of shoes – ‘Cast’; a series of nine paintings of sinks
and their contents – ‘At frequent Intervals’; and ‘House’ a
series of nine paintings showing a wrapped box with an
accompanying tree in nine different lights for her Degree Show
in 1999.
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