Diana trained in Textile Design at Hornsey College of Art and from 1973 designed home textiles for Cavendish Textiles, a division of the John Lewis Partnership, later becoming an Interior Designer for contract and domestic interiors at John Lewis plc. She now works from her own studio at her home in Stewkley, Buckinghamshire.
Diana has always loved classic architectural detail, the terracotta and yellow ochres of Italy, and the unusual perspective of buildings, but it is the colours and strong shadows created by bright light on her subject matter which make her respond to it.
Her recent work involves looking very closely at the patterns in a subject, drawing on her textile background, whilst enlarging the image and introducing texture and collage to her use of watercolour.
Diana’s watercolours are to be found in private collections in London, New York, Chicago, Brisbane, Florence, Paris and in Tuscany, as well as locally in the United Kingdom.
Exhibitions:
1999-2003 Society of Women Artists, Westminster Gallery, London, SW1
2004-2007 Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, Mall Galleries, London, SW1
2011-2013 Bucks Open Studios
2012 Bedford Street Gallery, Woburn
2013 Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, Mall Galleries, London, SW1
2013 Bedford Street Gallery, Woburn, “The Show”
2013 Off The Wall Art Fair, Bucks County Museum, Aylesbury
2014 Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, Mall Galleries, London, SW1.
2017 Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, Mall Galleries, London, SW1.
2017 Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries, London, SW1.
2017 Royal Society of Marine Artists, Mall Galleries, London SW1.
2017 The Claydon Gallery, Claydon House, MK 18 2EX: Bucks Open Studios and “The Summer Exhibition.”
2018 Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, Mall Galleries, London SW1.
2018 Bucks Art Weeks, Old Timbers Studio, Stewkley, Bucks.
2018 The Claydon Gallery, Claydon House Courtyard, MK18 2EX: Summer and Autumn Exhibitions.
2019 The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, Mall Galleries, London SW1.
2021 Bucks Art Society Centenary Exhibition, Aylesbury
2021 Broadway Arts Festival, Broadway, Cotswolds
2021 Bucks Art Weeks, Winslow Group
2022 Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, Mall Galleries, London SW1
2022 Bucks Art Weeks, Winslow Group.