ARTIST STATEMENT 

 

Diane reaches for a psychological edge in her mixed media paintings, using the head image as the carrier of an existential experience of the self in certain conditions, often dealing with loss. 

Her professional background as a psychotherapist informs Diane’s work in which she attempts to touch on universal archetypal themes, both personal and part of the fabric of the collective unconscious.  

A ‘transplanted’ American, Diane moved to Britain 27 years ago and became a British citizen in 2004. She developed a love affair with St Ives, Cornwall on holiday and finally moved there 13 years ago. In the century-old artist colony in St Ives, she found a home after a nomadic life of growing up in, and then working as a civilian for the Forces. 

 

She exhibits regularly with the St Ives Society of Artists and last year, in her first exhibition outside St Ives, she showed 20 paintings in Amsterdam at Walls Gallery, Prinsengracht. She has studied fine art at the University of Florida, George Washington University and is currently a student at University College Falmouth in Cornwall.