I hope you will enjoy viewing my paintings as much as I enjoy creating them!
My artistic journey has been fascinating and full of experimentation with different techniques, styles and media. My work has changed and evolved during that process, but now I have reached a defining moment in my journey where I have found the art I love to paint.
I love to paint an idea rather than reality. My work is loose, in vibrant, bright colours. Bold brush strokes excite me. My way of working has evolved over many years, and for a long time now I have painted every day.
I have a bold and dynamic approach to the creation of a new painting. I take my inspiration from a landscape or an element from nature, and I internalise the image. The image becomes a feeling, then an idea in my mind which I translate onto canvas using bold brush strokes and bright, vibrant colours. I then step back, I contemplate and compare with the idea in my head. I refine, I rework parts of the canvas until I am satisfied. And if, on viewing the painting the observer gets a sense of that feeling, I am gratified.
My formative years were spent in Manchester, England where I was fortunate to study art under Harold Riley, one of England’s top artists. Newly married, I moved to South Africa with my husband in 1971. I worked for many years as an architectural draughtswoman in Somerset West and, after raising my family, I took up painting again in the mid-1990s.
My work hangs in many private collections around the world. I am also represented in various galleries in South Africa and have my own studio behind my art gallery, Bright Street Gallery, in Somerset West.
I have been a member of the South African Society of Artists since 2005 and from 2010 to 2014 I chaired the Western Cape Artists’ Society.
Diane White joined Pixels.com Licensing on September 25th, 2013.
