Diana originally trained in printed textiles and fashion design, having a degree from Gloucestershire College of Art & Design (now the University of Gloucestershire).  She has worked as a designer in industry and taught Art and Design and Textiles at various Further Education Colleges.

Over the years, she has experimented with different textile related art forms.  She now concentrates on designing knitted, woven, felted and stitched fashion accessories using hand-dyed yarns, embellished with beading and stitched detail. Diana also makes and a range of silk and paper jewellery using a variety of tactile surfaces in a range of fashion colours

Diana uses a best quality watercolour paper as the base element of her pieces, which are then layered with a variety of printing techniques using acrylic paints hand mixed with powdered pigments to suggest a metallic or organic surface. The stitched sections are collaged onto the surface of constructed fibre papers, which she usually hand, dyes to co-ordinate with the papers.  Because of the hand produced nature of the work, each piece of jewellery is entirely unique – no two pieces being identical.

She has recently developed her work by introducing more sculptural elements to her pieces using felting to create textural surfaces, inspired by forms within the landscape.

  

Diana is interested in the tactile perpetually evolving immediate detail evident in nature both in its enormity and its close familiarity. She lives close to the coast and within easy reach of the Lake District Fells so rock formations, wave patterns and the constantly transforming surface of the landscape are proving a great stimulus to her newest designs.

Diana is a member of several groups of professional artists and makers with whom she exhibits on a regular basis.  She also sells her work through craft galleries and events throughout the country.  This year she is exhibiting at the British Craft Trade Fair in Harrogate to extend her range of gallery and exhibition opportunities.

She has also exhibited at the following Group and Individual Exhibitions:

• Stockport Art Gallery
• Blackburn Art Gallery
• Platform Gallery, Clitheroe
• Brook Gallery, Goosnargh, Preston
• Pendle Art Gallery, Barrowford, Lancashire    
• Yorkshire Craft Centre, Bradford  
• Lytham Heritage Centre, St Anne’s, Lancashire      
• Royal Exchange Craft Centre, Manchester    
• Gateway Galleries, Shrewsbury    
• Farfield Mill Heritage Centre, Sedbergh, Cumbria
• Museum of Lancashire, Preston 
• Haworth Art Gallery, Accrington

 

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