Diana Forrest Aka Gazelle

My practice is about reconstructing reality in mixed media.
I would best describe my work as investigative.

Influences: Mark Rothko’s intellect;
and the philosophers who influenced him which were Plato & Nietzsche.
And following on I discovered Eric Kandel a Neuroscientist who shed light on Reductionism and seeing which later lead me to discover Psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist who explains “The Divided Brain and the making of the Modern World” in his book THE MASTER and his EMISSARY.

Knowing now that just as when one sculptures a rock to find what lies beneath its surface or starts on a blank canvas, the sculpture is there and so is the painting.

“You cannot extract art from life, nor can you extract life from art”
by Gazelle

Presently working on MA in painting at Arts University Plymouth 22/2023
BA (Hons) Painting, Drawing & Printmaking) completed 2021 at
Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth UK
Studied at Penzance School of Painting, (Penzance College)
Ceramics, Life Drawing and Sculpture in clay.
Studied "The Carder Method" American Artist, and great teacher.
Inspired by Cezanne, Tinterreto and Rothko’s intellect and The Expressionists
Qualified chef studied at Camborne College
MBA : specialised in marketing an PhD student of California Coast University,USA.
Currently a student at Plymouth College of Art, taking a degree in Painting, Drawing and Printmaking, even though I’ve been an artist a long time, you can learn something new.

2014 St Ives Public Library, St Ives , Cornwall
2014 The Crypt Gallery, St Ives Society of Artists, St Ives, Cornwall
2015 Cafe Art, The a Drill Hall in St Ives Cornwall
2016 The Crypt Gallery, St Ives Society of Artists, St Ives, Cornwall
2017 Café Art
2018. St Ives Public Library
2021 Plymouth College of Art Summer Show July 2-9th 2021