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Diana Armfield RA PS NEAC

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Needed Objects behind Nodyn Y Nant

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Diana Armfield RA PS NEAC
Oil
13 x 22 cm (25 x 33 cm framed)
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2020
Available for collection: 
26 November 2020

Helleborus Niger

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Diana Armfield RA PS NEAC
Chalk
51 x 41 cm
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2019

Hellebores at Christmas

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Diana Armfield RA PS NEAC
Pastel & chalk
42 x 34 cm
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2019

The Passing Sandelo, Venice

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Diana Armfield RA PS NEAC
Pastel
37.5 x 40 cm
Related exhibition:
The Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2019

Footbridge over the Nant Hir

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Diana Armfield RA PS NEAC
Oil
28 x 33 cm
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2018

One of the Beguiling Views, Venice

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Diana Armfield RA PS NEAC
Pastel
38 x 30.5 cm
Related exhibition:
The Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2018

Teatime in the Garden

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Diana Armfield RA PS NEAC
Oil
43 x 36 cm
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2017

Through the Llanberis Pass to Visit Kyffin

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Diana Armfield RA PS NEAC
Oil
36 x 30 cm
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Open Exhibition 2016
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About Diana Armfield RA PS NEAC

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Artist's Statement

Diana Armfield says that she paints subjects that enhance life and need cherishing... protecting. She searches out a harmony from the chosen scene to share with others. Painting seems to make the subject permanently special for her.

“Of course life receives powerful negative forces as well as positive, but unless a harmony is achieved in the work, it can’t be art, only just a reflection of life. Great artists can reconcile in their work both the positive and negative.” For Diana, it stretches her talent enough to learn from her subject and attempt to order it into something meaningful that enriches life.

Method of Working

Diana works in several media; each can influence the method. Working outside, response to the subject is paramount. Once the choice of toned support and boundaries is acknowledged, the scene itself will seem to dictate what follows. Back in the studio, the outcome will get a long appraisal. If then developed in the studio, her emphasis shifts to thoughts of geometry, memory, imagination, possibly a drawing will come into play.

Flowers are seldom static. At first she will attempt to establish dominant blooms against precise indications of the more stable elements; exhilarating, sometimes despairing, rarely abandoned!

Pastels, usually based on sketchbook drawings; they seem to her, appropriate for town or café scenes. Figures, dogs get added from memory, imagination, or the sketchbook. They become alive to her, developing personalities and situations, rather in the way that characters in novels do for authors. Observed drawing underpins all her work.

Biographical Details

1920 Born on June 11

Educated, Bedales, Bounmouth Art, Slade School, Central School

1942 to 46 Cultural Activities Organiser, Ministry of Supply

1946 to 52 Armfield Passano partnership for designing and printing fabrics and wall papers

1949 Married Bernard Dunstan

1949 to 50 Tutor in the Textile Department at Central School of Arts and Crafts

1959 to 90 Taught at Byam Shaw Art School

1959 to 91 Visiting Tutor at various art schools

1970 Elected a Member of the New English Art Club

1975 Elected a Member of the Royal West of England Academy

1980 Elected a Member of the Royal Watercolour Society

1991 to 92 Elected a Member of the Central Royal Academy

Society Memberships

New English Art Club
The Pastel Society

Other Society Memberships

Royal West of England Academy, Hon. Ret.

Royal Watercolor Society, Hon. Ret.

Royal Cambrianan Academy, Hon. Ret.

Royal Academy, 1991, Assn. 1989

Exhibitions

The Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2018
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2017
The Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2017
New English Art Club Annual Open Exhibition 2016
NOW @ The Pastel Society
New English Art Club Annual Open Exhibition 2015
New English Art Club Annual Open Exhibition 2014

Other exhibitions

1970 Browse & Darby (Solo Exhibition)

2002 Albany Gallery

1966 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

2008 Curwen & New Academy 50th Anniversary

2001 Royal Cambrian Academy

Royal Academy Friend’s Room 90th Birthday Show.

2012 Royal Academy “Now”

2015 & 2016 Belle Shenkman Room, Royal Academy (Joint Exhibition)

 

Publications

Pocket Guide: Painting in Oils, Mitchell Beazley, Series Consultant

Drawing, A practical step by step guide, A Mitchell Beazley Handbook, Series Consultant

The Art of Diana Armfield by Julian Halsby, David & Charles Publishers

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