Diana moves between abstraction and loose figurative work, constantly referring to the moods and weathers of the Derbyshire Peak District where she lives. She also regards Still Life as essentially landscape, but it’s the fine balance between security and constraint in our domestic and emotional environments that engages her.

“I’m constantly looking for the balance between spontaneity and deliberation in the physical making of the work. So while the actual subject of the painting is meaningful to me, it’s secondary to the dynamics and moods of the marks themselves.” 

She is also a poet and as such have done fellowships, residencies, collaborations, commissions, performances as well as Arts Council and other funded projects and she taught poetry at Hallam University and The University of Derby (Buxton Campus), as well as on WEA and other projects and classes.