Diana Baur

Originally from London, I believe my father, who was an artist and industrial designer, inspired my early life and love of "˜all things visual'.
I studied textile printing and dyeing at Whiteland's College Putney in the 1970s, developing a love of colour and design. My tutor, Nora Proud, included photographs of my work in the Batsford book 'Simple Textile Dyeing and Printing'.
In 2010, I was awarded a First Class Honours Degree in Fine Art at Glyndwr University, Wrexham, and have been painting and drawing ever since. This year, 2014 I completed my Masters in Fine Art Practice at the same University.
I have developed an abstract expressionist style of painting reflecting my character and need to search for the "˜intangible" in life. 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 ...