Dianne commenced her career as an artist at age 52, studying a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) at Curtin University. After graduating in 2010, she decided to broaden her boundaries, working for not-for-profit organisations in regional Western Australia Roebourne (Pilbara region) and Albany (Great Southern region). In 2018, Dianne returned to Perth, continuing to paint and nurture her creative talent and currently works from her studio in Mullaloo, Western Australia.
Reflecting on her journey so far, she says:
What I have learned is that there are no short cuts – you have to put in the time and do the work. Creativity is a force to be reckoned with when you are an expressive person, the nagging urge inside me compels me to make art and face that blank canvas, to extend myself and find the courage to make those first playful marks. It is like opening ‘Pandora’s Box’ of transient reflections and immediately I am engaged.
Artist Statement
My practice has developed into an emotional performance of expressive, bold application of lines, colour, texture and shape. I work from a place of imaginative play, mark making by scraping, adding and removing, using spray paint, drawing with pens, pencils and crayons. I have an intuitive dialogue with the work. I swing from impulse to a considered mark, line, shape or colour. My abstract paintings are inspired by the various environments that I have found myself in whether environmental, domestic, psychological or industrial landscapes - colours and forms drawn from the world around me and laying dormant within. I always knew there was an abstract expressionist residing within...
I invite you to contact me by email me with your phone number and I will happily phone you to chat about my art and process
Warm Regards
Dianne