Employing a playful approach, Diana starts her paintings with no predetermined outcome, drawing on her instinct and curiosity. Beginning initially on the floor before taking her linens to the wall, Diana works quickly with brushes, cloths and fingers. She is interested in the deconstructing and reassembling of elements in her practice via the layering, covering up and wiping away of paint to achieve her unique style of abstraction. Diana’s paintings combine gestural, textured components with shapes and bold, flat spaces of colour that create depth through their juxtaposition.

Says Diana of this work, “Working in the realm of abstraction, using shape-based forms with a graphic sensibility, this painting underwent many permutations before morphing in to this final composition. Areas have been glazed over and semi-covered to create blocky areas that contrast with the other shapes, tones and lines.”