Painting with Di the Dripper
Diana Terry
Painting
The lockdown makes me sad. I can only cope with the enormity of it by concentrating on my immediate surroundings. I can’t go to the studio so I used my dining room. I want to find joy again and it is right outside my front window, a blossoming magnolia tree.
Diana Terry
Painting
The way I make paintings reflects the way I experience the world, and what I'm like as a person. I think this is inevitable. I have never wanted to limit myself to one or two kinds of mark-making - I find it exciting and challenging to find different ways of using paint, both by looking at art history, and through the process of using paint itself. I value this versatility. Just because I'm able to do lots of different things in paint it doesn't mean I don't mean it. The paintings are not simply an exercise in cool irony, they're a sincere attempt to make sense of the world and the joy and despair I feel at being alive. As a professional artist I want to make paintings that surprise, excite and engage and that have something new to add to the history of painting.
