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Diana Baur
Glyndwr (BA 1st Class Hons Fine Art, 2010 / 2010)
  • On The Way
    Size (H x W x D): 0 x 0 x 0 cm
    Sold
  • Starboard
    Size (H x W x D): 20 x 20 x 4 cm
    Sold
  • Weathered
    Size (H x W x D): 20 x 20 x 4 cm
    £150.00
  • The End of The Beginning
    Size (H x W x D): 90 x 90 x 4 cm
    £1,000.00
  • Shoreline
    Size (H x W x D): 20 x 20 x 4 cm
    £150.00
  • Reveal:Conceal
    Size (H x W x D): 92 x 92 x 4 cm
    £1,000.00
  • Beyond Now
    Size (H x W x D): 60 x 100 x 4 cm
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  • Cinnamon See
    Size (H x W x D): 0 x 0 x 0 cm
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  • Closing In
    Size (H x W x D): 20 x 20 x 3 cm
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  • In The Past
    Size (H x W x D): 50 x 50 x 4 cm
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  • Singing Sea
    Size (H x W x D): 30 x 30 x 3 cm
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  • Long Night with Whispers and Polished Floors
    Size (H x W x D): 90 x 90 x 4 cm
    £1,000.00
  • Last Lap
    Size (H x W x D): 140 x 107 x 4 cm
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  • The Glorious Twelfth
    Size (H x W x D): 90 x 90 x 4 cm
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  • Chasing The Sun (or The Sun's Journey)
    Size (H x W x D): 90 x 90 x 4 cm
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  • Edge
    Size (H x W x D): 61 x 61 x 4 cm
    £650.00
  • Reach for the Star
    Size (H x W x D): 61 x 61 x 4 cm
    £550.00
  • Way Through
    Size (H x W x D): 50 x 50 x 4 cm
    £450.00
  • Yellow Square
    Size (H x W x D): 64 x 64 x 5 cm
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  • Ochre Sails 6
    Size (H x W x D): 30 x 30 x 4 cm
    £180.00
  • Beached
    Size (H x W x D): 20 x 20 x 4 cm
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  • Ancestral Line
    Size (H x W x D): 100 x 100 x 6 cm
    £1,500.00
  • Tidal Wave
    Size (H x W x D): 30 x 30 x 1.5 cm
    £110.00
  • Night Sky
    Size (H x W x D): 61 x 61 x 3 cm
    £550.00
  • Journey
    Size (H x W x D): 91 x 121 x 4 cm
    £1,000.00
  • Salt Sails 4
    Size (H x W x D): 30 x 30 x 1 cm
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  • Blue Way
    Size (H x W x D): 50 x 50 x 4 cm
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  • Stream of Consciousness
    Size (H x W x D): 120 x 120 x 4 cm
    £1,200.00
  • Streaked
    Size (H x W x D): 20 x 20 x 3.5 cm
    £140.00
  • Time Passes
    Size (H x W x D): 50 x 50 x 4 cm
    £450.00
  • Ochre Sails 8
    Size (H x W x D): 30 x 30 x 4 cm
    £180.00
  • Icaro
    Size (H x W x D): 102 x 72 x 4 cm
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  • Way Out
    Size (H x W x D): 50 x 50 x 4 cm
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  • Tango
    Size (H x W x D): 61 x 61 x 4 cm
    £650.00
  • Salt Sails 2
    Size (H x W x D): 30 x 30 x 1 cm
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  • Inbetween Decisions
    Size (H x W x D): 123 x 123 x 4 cm
    £1,200.00
  • Iron Site Fragment 5
    Size (H x W x D): 25 x 25 x 3.5 cm
    £150.00
  • Dream On
    Size (H x W x D): 60 x 100 x 4 cm
    £900.00
  • Split Second Two
    Size (H x W x D): 20 x 20 x 1 cm
    £65.00
  • Iron Site Fragment Three
    Size (H x W x D): 20 x 20 x 3 cm
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  • Touching Base
    Size (H x W x D): 68 x 68 x 5 cm
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  • The Sound of Feathers
    Size (H x W x D): 61 x 61 x 4 cm
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  • Ochre Sails 4
    Size (H x W x D): 30 x 30 x 4 cm
    £180.00
  • Field Hedge Two
    Size (H x W x D): 60 x 80 x 1.5 cm
    £480.00
  • Broken Lines
    Size (H x W x D): 78.5 x 78.5 x 4 cm
    £750.00
  • Morning Light
    Size (H x W x D): 76 x 76 x 4 cm
    Sold
  • Riot
    Size (H x W x D): 90 x 90 x 4 cm
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  • Travelling Light
    Size (H x W x D): 50 x 50 x 4 cm
    £450.00
  • Ochre Sails 7
    Size (H x W x D): 30 x 30 x 4 cm
    £180.00
  • Siding
    Size (H x W x D): 54 x 54 x 6 cm
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  • Place To Be
    Size (H x W x D): 61 x 61 x 4 cm
    £550.00
  • Moon Shadow
    Size (H x W x D): 61 x 61 x 4 cm
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  • Tidal
    Size (H x W x D): 30 x 30 x 1 cm
    £110.00
  • Out of The Way
    Size (H x W x D): 50 x 50 x 4 cm
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  • Place of Transition
    Size (H x W x D): 40 x 76 x 4 cm
    Sold
  • Time Has Told Me
    Size (H x W x D): 50 x 50 x 4 cm
    £450.00
  • Ochre Sails 9
    Size (H x W x D): 30 x 30 x 4 cm
    £180.00
  • Morning Hedge
    Size (H x W x D): 80 x 60 x 2 cm
    Sold
  • Fire in the Heart
    Size (H x W x D): 100 x 136 x 4.5 cm
    £1,500.00
  • Circus Dance
    Size (H x W x D): 61 x 61 x 4 cm
    £650.00

Profile

  Originally from London, my father, who was an artist/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.  
I have developed an abstract expressionist style of painting reflecting my character and need to search for the ‘otherness’ or ‘intangible’ in life. I visually represent non-visual fragments of experience - often auditory and kinaesthetic - and momentary thoughts and memories. The inspiration for these comes from many sources. 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 if they are indeed perhaps inseparable?

I am a founder member of the Inside Out Art Group : http://www.insideoutart.co.uk, and also a member of both the Borderland Visual Arts and Helfa Gelf Art groups. I exhibit and sell my work locally in venues such as Pandy Mill Gallery, The Willow Gallery Oswestry and Theatre Clwyd Mold. In 2010 I was short listed for the Signature Art Awards run by DegreeArt.com, and show and sell work in their gallery in London. In 2010 I was invited to display work in The Artists Alley, San Francisco (Galiara.com). I occasionally work to commission.

Exhibitions

  DegreeArt.com, Signature Art Award Finalist, Painting Category,  Vyner Street, London

 

September 2012 - Helfa Gelf Art Trail Open Studios

August 2012- Sept. 2012 Pru Barron Memorial Exhibition Heritage Centre Oswestry, Shropshire

July 2012-August 2012 Wales Open Theatre Clwyd, North Wales

June 2012 Borderland Visual Arts Open Studios

June 2012 Ellesmere Art Exhibition, Ellesmere School Shropshire

May 2012 Grand Designs London and Affordable Art Fair Bristol through DegreeArt.com

April 2012 Italian Exhibition Willow Gallery Oswestry

March 2012 "Text" - Borderland Visual Arts exhibition Oswestry Library

November/December 2011 Willow Gallery Christmas Show

  • October 2011 – Café Collection Willow Gallery Oswestry

  • September 2011 – Helf Gelf Art Trail & Screamin' Chicken Gallery Oswestry

  • August 2011 Curated the Glyndwr Summer Show at The Willow Gallery Oswestry

  • July 2011 – Wales Open Theatre Clwyd

  • July 2011 The Way – 7-venue exhibition in Oswestry

  • June 2011 – Borderland Visual Arts Open Studios

  • June 2011 – Borderland Visual arts Group Show Willow Gallery Oswestry

  • May 2011 Inside Out at SPACE in Ellesmere

  • March 2011 Oswestry Library Art of The Mask

  • January 2011 Galiara San Francisco – website and invited to show for 3 months – in process

  • October-December 2010 -Willow Gallery, Oswestry - opening show

 

  • Pen y Llan Country House Inspirational Art Day Channel 4.

 

  • August 2010 - Vyner St. Gallery, London – and DegreeArt.com website

- ongoing

 

  • November 2010 Borderland Visual Arts Group exhibition “Extremely small Square show” 

 

  • September 2010 Helfa Gelf Open Studios

 

  • August 2010 awarded BA (First Class Hons) Fine Art Degree Glyndwr University, Wrexham, Wales.

 

  • August 2010 – Short-listed for the Signature Art awards, Vyner St. Gallery, London.

 

  • July – September 2010 Pru Barron group show Oswestry Visitor Centre, Oswestry Shropshire.

 

  • July-August 2010 Knowing Me, Knowing You group show Qube Gallery Oswestry Shropshire.

 

  • July- August 2010– Oswestry Library solo exhibition

 

  • June 2010 - Borderland Visual Arts Open Studios

 

  • May/June 2010 Glyndwr University Fine Art Degree Show

 

  • April-May 2010 Borderland Visual Arts Group Show Theatre Clwyd, Mold, Wrexham.

 

  • February 2010 Secret Show Durber Gallery NWSAD, Glyndwr University, Wrexham, Wales.

 

  • January-March 2010 Helfa Gelf group exhibition at Theatre Clwyd

 

  • December 2009 Inside Out Exhibition at Pandy Mill Gallery

 

  • November 2009 – BVA Small Picture Show, Oswestry Library, Oswestry

 

  • September- October 2009 – Solo exhibition “Recollections” at Heritage Centre Oswestry, Shropshire.

 

  • September – November 2009 - Oriel Pendeitsh Caernavon – Helfa Gelf group exhibition.

 

  • September 2009 Helfa Gelf Open Studios exhibiting at Pandy Mill Gallery

 

  • August-September 2009 Visitor Centre Oswestry – Pru Barron group exhibition

 

  • August-September 2009 Wrexham Open group exhibition

 

  • July – August 2009 The Sandford Gallery, Church Stretton, Shropshire – solo exhibition

 

  • June 2009 – BVA Open Studios – exhibiting at Pandy Mill Gallery

 

  • May 2009 – Inside Out Time and Place exhibition Llanarmon D.C.

 

  • February 2009 – “Waiting” an Inside Out one-month project displaying art in three bus shelters in the Ceiriog Valley. (BBC Wales press release and Glyndwr website.)

 

  • November 2008 BVA Small Picture Show

 

  • November 2008 Llangollen Fair, The Pavilion, Llangollen

 

  • September-October 2008 “Helfa Gelf “ exhibition at Pandy Mill Gallery.

 

  • October-November 2008 invited to leave exhibits from Helfa Gelf on display at Pandy Mill Gallery.

 

  • June 2008 BVA Open Studios exhibition Pandy Mill Gallery

 

  • May 2008 - Inside Out exhibition Llanarmon D.C

 

  • May 2008 Berwyn Festival – Art show

 

  • March 2008 – Joint Exhibition with two student peers at The Heritage Centre Oswestry, Shropshire.

 

  • Spring 2008 Leonardo Scheme – Polish Artists Project

Collage work displayed in Durber Gallery NWSAD

         

  • December 2007 – Wrexham Open

 

  • Autumn 2007 – Leonardo Scheme – Polish Artists’ Project

           Six collage works exhibited in Foyer of NWSAD

 

  • September 2007 Leonardo Scheme – Polish Artists Project –

Graffiti Wall and Graffiti wallpaper piece exhibited in Durber Gallery

 

  • Summer 2007 – Artist Teacher Scheme Exhibition in Gallery 103,

 

  • May 2007 – Berwyn Festival – Art exhibition

 

  • Spring 2007 “First Thursday/ATS Installation “It’s a Wrap Up”

Interview

What is your favourite film of all time?

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid because of its rawness and strong sense of mortality.

What music are you currently listening to and why?

 

 

The Stones – I was recently given a video of their current performances and am amazed at their energy and love the rawness of their songs

  
 
 

Which living artists do you most admire and why?

  Many! But in particular

Gillian Ayres for her totally joyful and abandoned use of paint and colour

Anish Kapoor for his simple but powerful works that remind us of the spiritual nature of art

Roger Cecil – a reclusive Welsh Artist whose abstract works sharply and totally effectively reflect his area and background.

Mary Lloyd Jones – who, as I see it, has pioneered the visual arts in Wales in recent years, and whose work with dyes and fabrics has inspired me to consider the role of fabric in an art work.

Lia Cook whose work using new technology to “print” images on fabric intrigues me

Frieda Hughes who feels that her move to the purely abstract from the purely representational  may well be risky

Grayson Perry – because of his approach to life, his honesty and to his art

Which deceased artist do you most admire and why?

  Hannelore Baron who so skilfully used just the right materials and created the right works to reflect her disturbing childhood experiences

 Picasso who pushed out the boundaries of seeing with cubism

 Matisse whose work reflects his childhood influences from the  fabrics and prints that his mother used

 Klimpt for his rich patterning

  Prunella Clough who showed us that wonderful compositions are “are hiding in small places”!

 Rembrandt for his deep rich palette and subject matter

Which exhibition that you have visited made the greatest impact on you and why?

  That’s difficult because I have been to so many  but if pushed I would have to say Matisse to Malevich - Pioneers of Modern Art from the Hermitae at The Hermitage in Amsterdam that was showing expressionist works from

the Hermitage in St. Petersburg  including many Matisse paintings.

What is the question you get asked most frequently about your work and how do you answer it?

   “How do you know how to start?” (or words to that effect) and I explain that frequently I just start making marks and the painting “takes over” with the marks

telling me what to do next, which is a bit vague for most people.  I then point out that some of my paintings start from an experience or quite often, like Prunella Clough, come from seeing an interesting

composition “hiding” quietly and unseen in a very humble place such as the corner of a train carriage!

What / who inspired you to be an artist?

  My father who was an industrial designer. My childhood was filled with “seeing” and my father took every opportunity to help me to see – when he read to me on his knee he

Would choose books that were beautifully illustrated as well as having a good plot. He would talk about the colours and the shapes. I believe he encouraged me to develop a visual language

that has stayed with me all my life. I would watch amazed as he carved shapes from wood and stone, sketched simple scenes when we were on holiday and encouraged me to

draw and paint.

Can you tell us about where you make your art and what if any the significance of this location is?

 

 I make art in several places - mostly  in my head most of the time, in my shed at home and mostly in my shared studio space

5 miles away.
 

 

  

 


 

 

 

 

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What do you like most about being an artist?

  The freedom to express oneself and be creative – to be a child again. It takes one right away from the mundane, the ordinary and connects one

with a better world. I also love meeting to and talking with other artists.

What is your greatest achievement as an artist to date?

  Putting on two highly successful exhibitions outside in my home village in 2008 and 2009 and setting up the Inside Out Art Group http://www.insideoutart.co.uk/  which is a group of more than 60 local practising artists,

staff and students of Glyndwr University Art school . The mix of extablished artists and student artists works really well, with the students energy and new iideas and the established artists knowledge of what “works”, it is

good mix of mutual support and skills.

 

Being invited to show my work in San Francisco in The Artists Alley and also selling my work through DegreeArt.com in London 

What are your plans for the coming year?

 

I aim to

 To continue painting and exhibiting. 

 To continue to re-visit and develop my current art practice drivers -

 which are exploring the role of fabric in an artwork and

 investigating the twin aspects of destruction and construction, how these are linked, and what ratio of each might be most interesting.

 On a practical level I am planning to change my large garage into a working studio at home to reduce travel costs.