50 x £50
09 DECEMBER 202042. Diana Palmer
Vegetation (Azure and Orange)
Signed and dated (on the reverse)
Watercolour and gouache on canvas
30 x 24 x 3.5 cm.
Painted in 2020.
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An artwork of this size by Diana Palmer normally sells for £280. You can see more of her work at her website and Instagram.
"Foliage is often centre stage in my work but for this piece I used a new colour combination. The shadow-like, azure blue complements the orange background, as well as taking on some green hues. I wanted to emphasise a sense of fluidity and light coming through with the translucency of the leaves. The painting has an autumnal feel, with silver gouache highlighting certain, frost-like patches". - Diana Palmer, 2020.
Diana Palmer’s paintings address the relationship between a figure and its environment. Recent works depict dancing plants or people, morphing into, or emerging from, a landscape. Conveying movement, the pieces capture observed and abstracted fragments of light, atmospheric changes or physical gestures.
Diana likes to work with a vertical “portrait” canvas, as this shape relates to her standing body. Whether inspired by a memory of a place or a photograph, the process of painting is a playful interpretation of spatial relations. Performing figures may be visible, or else the artist' perception of her surroundings may be the sole subject matter.
Accolades
Diana Palmer graduated from Camberwell College of Arts. She was artist in residence at Trélex, Switzerland, in April 2018. Her work has been shown in the UK, Greece and Germany and is held in several private collections in the UK, US, Italy and Uganda.
Exhibitions include: Element.Void, The Icing Room, London 2019, Grow, Flow (solo show), Deptford Does Art Gallery, London 2018, Light and Structure, Deptford X Fringe 2017, Fragments Together (solo show), Peckham Pelican, London 2013.