Diana has lived in West Cornwall for most of her life, where 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. These often take the form of still life, though lately for the first time in many years she is branching out into landscapes. These drawings are in ink and watercolour are totally different from her oil paintings.

While being representational Diana interprets what she sees in her own way, often cropping the image in order to find spaces, angles and shapes which are interesting, and not perhaps otherwise obvious. Light and lighting are very important to her.

Always interested in sculpture she delights in the process of oil painting, which in her mind is to carve an image out of the canvas, creating the image and watching it emerge from its background. This has led to her delight in painting shoes. She sees them as portraits of the people who wear them. She did a series of black shoes for her Degree show, entitled Cast. After painting her daughter and son-in-laws' wedding shoes for their wedding anniversary, she was persuaded to paint wedding shoes professionally, under the name Twoshoes.

Diana's influences are many, ranging from Picasso (in papier mache constructions) to Lucien Freud and Chardin in her representational works. Her love of repetition comes from her admiration of Monet and Lisa Milroy (who gave her her first inspiration to pain a series of shoes). Her intrigue in wrapped objects comes from Joseph Beuys and Christo.