Angela Dierks

I admire the human capacity for experiencing love, hope and joy even under very challenging circumstances and I tend to focus my work on these three themes. I paint dreamy, lyrical abstract paintings which are heavily influenced by the emotional content of my work as a psychotherapist.

People’s internal worlds have always intrigued me which drove me to re-train as a counsellor/psychotherapist in my early 40s. Having originally studied literature, I was interested in looking at different forms of expression – beyond language – for several years. The exploration of internal landscapes and emotional processes carried over for me in my practice as a mixed media, abstract artist. The world of therapy opened up a deeper exploration of instinctive and deeply personal processes that painting helped me to access. Concurrently, producing art became my own form of therapy. In my therapeutic work I discuss emotional states; in my art I aim to translate emotions into abstract, poetic, visual markers on canvas.

Art enables me to access my own embodied emotions that often escape intellectualisation. Painting is bottom-up processing rather than top down. I can discharge my emotions through the work on canvas or paper. Primary emotions such as sa...

King's College, University of London, BA Honours German.
St Cross College, University of Oxford, MA European Literature
London Metropolitan University, MA Counselling

2026

Tarpey Gallery, Derby, Open 2026, 27 June – 9 August
Gallery at Home, Abergavenny, Summer Exhibition, 19 July -15 August 2026
Tarpey Gallery, Derby, Surface & Form — Selected Artists, 29th August – 4th October 2026
The Other Art Fair, London, Truman Brewery, Brick Lane - 8-11 October 2026

2025
Linden Hall Studio, Deal, Winter Show, 6 December – 31 January 2026
Artsnug Gallery, WalthamstowStories #3|In Colour, 1-31 November 2025
Tarpey Gallery, Derby, Open 2025, 30 August – 6 October 2025
Tarpey Gallery, Derby, Refresh 25 – Selected Artists, February-April 2025

2024
Nearly Home, Digital Art Show Madrid, October 2024
Art Gotham, New York City, Sept – November 2024
Hamptons Fine Art Fair, USA, July 2024

Tarpey Gallery, Derby, Open 25, Group Show, July/August 2024
Inky Finger Gallery, ‘Fiesta’ Group show, July 2024
Tarpey Gallery, Derby, Refresh 24 – Selected Artists, February/March 2024
GSA Capital, London, February – July 2024

2023

The Other Art Fair, Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, March 2023
Potter Clarkson LLP, Nottingham, March – May 2023
Dugdale Centre, Enfield, April 2023
Arbeit Studios, Palmers Green, April 2023
London Lighthouse Gallery, London City Island, May 2023
Tarpey Gallery, Derby, July/August 2023
The Gal...