Acrylic on linen

2020

150cm H x 130cm W

One-of-a-kind

Unframed | Custom framing available

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pilgrimage

/ˈpɪlɡrɪmɪdʒ/

noun

A journey to a place of particular interest or significance, life viewed as a journey.

Tapping into the spiritual realm that inhabits Diana’s home town of Byron Bay, this painting is a loose and unlaboured offering, a spilling of paint onto the surface, combining line and loosely covered areas in a new palette of mustards and pinks. Diana’s work consistently reflects her inner world and as she evolves so new forms and imagery comes to the fore. This painting speaks of a journey towards something, it signifies a quest, a longing and a desire for more, but not in the physical realm.

Her works are essentially founded in the deconstruction and reassembling of images, with a practice that is very tactile, grounded in the interplay between two and three-dimensional shape-making. Diana has recently revisited her love of blind contour drawing, making image after image from visions in her head and from objects and images around her in the studio. Surrounded by chopped up wood scraps, paper and ink sketches, Diana constantly reworks and rearranges her collection of materials to formulate shapes and compositions, creating her own visual language – her drawings and collages underpinning and informing all her final paintings.

 

Signed on back.