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Diane WalkeyDiane Walkey

Diane Walkey

United Kingdom - Wales - Carmarthenshire

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When I am painting, I like to use a variety of implements and tools including knives, cardboard, rags, housepainters brushes, and, occasionally, my fingers. I really enjoy the process of painting and the serendipity of wet on wet techniques. Though I may start with a fairly accurate representational drawing, I soon digress. It's rather like stepping off a known path in to an unknown space... This is the place where you bring together the known and the imagined, memory and invention, and where Painting becomes Art. For me, painting is an expression of personality and identity - moving paint around a canvas is this expression. The subject is something to hang a painting on. The painting itself determines when it is finished. Sizes given are nominal, though I try to be fairly accurate. Frames, if any, are generally simple 1" pine.

 

I was brought up on the Gower Coast in South Wales. I studied Stained Glass at Swansea Art College, Glass & Ceramics at Stourbridge Art College, and Glassblowing at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. I spent some years teaching Art & Design, Fine Art, Sculpture & Ceramics and studying for an MA in Art & Design Education at Manchester Polytechnic. I am a professional working artist, I paint, draw, take photographs,make artist's books, and also work as a Book illustrator . I am also a tutor on Painting and Photography courses for The Open College of the Arts. I live and work in West Wales, near the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path and the Ceredigion Coast. My work has been exhibited widely. I was outright winner of The Independent/Energy Saving Trust National Photography Competition in 2003 and consequently, my work was on display at The Science Museum, London for three months in 2003/4. I have also had work shown in a Royal Photograph Society's International Print Show, Wexford Artists Book Exhibition, which travelled Eire, Y Tabernacl, Machynlleth, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, and many other venues. I recently co-curated 'Lines & Strata' - Welsh Drawing Show and competition, open to Artists from all over the Principality, shown at Oriel Mwldan, Cardigan, and am a co-curator of Lines & Strata 2, touring Wales now. Visitors to my studio in Tanygroes, Cardigan, Ceredigion, are welcome throughout the year, though you are advised to Email first.

Exhibition History

September 28 2009 20.00 - 21-00I will be on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, using the space as my studio for an hour.
This summer, sculptor Antony Gormley invites you to help create an astonishing living monument. He is asking the people of the UK to occupy the empty Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in London, a space normally reserved for statues of Kings and Generals. They will become an image of themselves, and a representation of the whole of humanity.
Every hour, 24 hours a day, for 100 days without a break, a different person will make the Plinth their own.
http://www.oneandother.co.uk/participants/ArtistDi
I am going to be on the plinth 2000-2100 on Mon 28 September 2009. Please click on the link above and pledge to watch!
This summer, sculptor Antony Gormley invites you to help create an astonishing living monument. He is asking the people of the UK to occupy the empty Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in London, a space normally reserved for statues of Kings and Generals. They will become an image of themselves, and a representation of the whole of humanity.
Every hour, 24 hours a day, for 100 days without a break, a different person will make the Plinth their own.
http://www.oneandother.co.uk/participants/ArtistDi
I am going to be on the plinth 2000-2100 on Mon 28 September 2009. Please click on the link above and pledge to watch!
10th - 12th JulyArt At Rhosygilwen
Exhibition in the Oak Hall
Private view Friday 10th July at 6.30pm
August 2009'West Meets East' Exhibition, Seapictures Gallery, Clare, Sudbury, Suffolk
22 August 2009(opens)'Nature- Red in Tooth and Claw' exhibition, The Rooms Gallery, Llandeilo, Carmarthen
20th June 2009( opens)'High Summer' Exhibition & Poetry, The Rooms Gallery, Llandeilo, Carmarthen
June - August 2009Open House at my Studio, email for details

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