Diana Cole at the Saatchi Gallery, UK

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"Figures", "Drawings" and "Mary Rieby & Daisy Bates" galleries updated March 2008.

Diana lives in Sydney, Australia and has been painting for many years. Although largely a figurative artist, there is also a very popular series of colourful Sydney Harbour paintings, mostly acrylic on archival paper and vivid canvases inspired by trips to Far North Queensland.

Over the years, travels around the world have resulted in paintings, drawings and prints from Crete, based on the Minoan legends and works based on the culture and flora of Bali and Thailand, to name but a few. Many hours have been spent visiting the great collections in New York, Boston, London, Rome, Paris, Nice, Munich and around Australia.

Drawing is her passion and she is never without a pad and paper. Each week she draws from the model and has a large collection of drawings in ink and compressed charcoal, based on the human figure. There are also lively canvases in oil and acrylic.

Diana has coordinated the Sketch Club at the Workshop Art Centre, Willoughby for many years. The group meets on Friday mornings from 10am to 12noon with a different professional model each week.

Contacts:

Diana's work can be seen at:

  • Cudgegong Gallery, 102 Herbert St. Gulgong 2852; Telephone: +61 (0)2 6374 1630;

  • Gannon House Gallery, 45 Argyle St. The Rocks, Sydney, NSW, Australia 2000

  • Studio Altenburg, 104 Wallace St., Braidwood, NSW, Australia 2622, Telephone/Fax: +61 (0)2 4842 2384

  • Saattchi Gallery, UK

  • Marianne Newman Gallery, Suite 1, 1 Albany St, Crows Nest, NSW, Australia, 2065. +61 2 9436 1072

  • Gallery 41, 41 Riley St, Woolloomooloo, NSW, Australia 2011, +61 (0)408 226 827

  • Graphis |art + framing|, 50 Edgecliffe Rd, Woollahara, NSW, Australia, 2025, +61 2 9389 9399