The Australian Diana

This vase was a recent op shop find and my introduction to Diana Pottery. Operating out of premises in Sydney from 1940 to 1975, Diana Pottery was an Australian company that made domestic and art pottery that today likely resides in the back of cupboards, op shops and vintage stores.

This little Diana vase is posing with a dried leucadendron...not an Australian native, but matching in colour hues. She may just mark the beginning of a slight obsession with Diana Pottery.

Unvarnished at time of photographing.

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I am a Perth based artist working in acrylics. Raised in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, a love of nature led to a career in environmental science with a focus on the botanical world. My passion for Australian flora and an interest in the sentimentality placed on objects appear often as subject material. My paintings often portray a sense of melancholy or sometimes whimsy, but always with the common thread of time passing. To be both familiar and different is the ultimate aim.