Diana Baur working in Mixed media-acrylics, oils & fabrics etc
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I have developed an abstract expressionist style of painting reflecting a need to search for the "intangible". My paintings can be entirely abstract and my drawings representational scenes of the roads and landscapes I see where I live. These two approaches have recently given rise to painting abstract landscapes.
I often visually represent non-visual fragments of experience - both auditory and kinaesthetic and momentary thoughts and memories. The inspiration for these comes from many sources.
I combine dyes and paints with collage and fabrics, layering, folding, shredding and tearing to create texture. I have a fascination with the role that fabric can play in an artwork, and can be quite destructive during the process, and frequently find that the end stages of a painting actually only begin after this destructive phase. This process has kindled an interest in the relationship between destruction and creation. These two appear to walk hand in hand, and I wonder sometimes if they are indeed perhaps inseparable?
I was a founder member of the Inside Out Art Group that has evolved into The Hillfort Creativity Group. I exhibit and sell my work locally in venues such as The Willow Gallery Oswestry and Theatre Clwyd Mold. In 2010 I was short listed for the Signature Art Awards run by DegreeArt.com, and show and sell work in their gallery in Somerset House, London.
In 2010 I was invited to display work in The Artists Alley, San Francisco and have also displayed work in The New York Art Fair and several UK and London Art Fairs, Galleries in Vienna and New York and sold works in Vienna, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, New York, and Canada. Some of my work has been used in film sets and I occasionally work to commission.
To see more of my latest works please visit my website www.dianabaur.co.uk and also visit
http://www.degreeart.com where some of my work is
solely consigned to DegreeArt based in Somerset House London.
I have developed an abstract expressionist style of painting reflecting a need to search for the "intangible". My paintings can be entirely abstract and my drawings representational scenes of the roads and landscapes I see where I live. These two approaches have recently given rise to painting abstract landscapes.
I often visually represent non-visual fragments of experience - both auditory and kinaesthetic and momentary thoughts and memories. The inspiration for these comes from many sources.
I combine dyes and paints with collage and fabrics, layering, folding, shredding and tearing to create texture. I have a fascination with the role that fabric can play in an artwork, and can be quite destructive during the process, and frequently find that the end stages of a painting actually only begin after this destructive phase. This process has kindled an interest in the relationship between destruction and creation. These two appear to walk hand in hand, and I wonder sometimes if they are indeed perhaps inseparable?
I was a founder member of the Inside Out Art Group that has evolved into The Hillfort Creativity Group. I exhibit and sell my work locally in venues such as The Willow Gallery Oswestry and Theatre Clwyd Mold. In 2010 I was short listed for the Signature Art Awards run by DegreeArt.com, and show and sell work in their gallery in Somerset House, London.
In 2010 I was invited to display work in The Artists Alley, San Francisco and have also displayed work in The New York Art Fair and several UK and London Art Fairs, Galleries in Vienna and New York and sold works in Vienna, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, New York, and Canada. Some of my work has been used in film sets and I occasionally work to commission.
To see more of my latest works please visit my website www.dianabaur.co.uk and also visit
http://www.degreeart.com where some of my work is
solely consigned to DegreeArt based in Somerset House London.