Diana Armfield RA Hon RWS NEAC has a highly personal attachment to
subject and a subtly distinctive affinity with the rhythms of form
and tone. These qualities make her an important, influential figure
in modern British art - and a very popular one. Flower paintings
have brought her wide acclaim, but this book - created to mark her
100th birthday - also richly represents Diana's feeling for
landscape and place. Including an inspiring number of more recent
works, it brings her fascinating artistic and life story up to
date. 'I think I was born making things', Diana comments to Andrew
Lambirth, whose absorbing interview with her forms the narrative
thread of Diana Armfi eld: A Lyrical Eye. Diana's was a creative
childhood steeped in experiments with drawing, pottery and
embroidery, played out against the backdrop of a picture-fi lled
house, a lovely garden and an artistic family. She studied at
Bournemouth, Slade and Central art schools, starting out as a
talented textile designer - a legacy that lent her a unique
approach to the geometry, cadences and colour qualities of a
painting. After organising cultural activities for workers and
troops in World War II, Diana became one half of a successful
partnership designing textiles and wallpaper, whose work featured
in the Festival of Britain in 1951. The 1960s brought a turn to
painting and from 1966 Diana has been a regular exhibitor at the
prestigious Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. She has continued to
paint and draw throughout her life and, as this book clearly
demonstrates, always thinks afresh about each subject she tackles
in order to respond to it with a close, warm sincerity. Diana Armfi
eld: A Lyrical Eye charts Diana's personal and artistic journey
with over 200 beautiful reproductions of her work, tracing
favourite subjects and events - from a Welsh landscape to an
informal fl ower display or the much-loved location of a painting
trip in Italy or France. Andrew Lambirth's interview also explores
the unique bond with her husband, painter Bernard Dunstan, who died
in 2017, looking at how two leading artists interwove their
personal and creative lives over a marriage of almost 70 years. As
well as this interview, Andrew has contributed an essay on Diana's
work to the book. Diana's standing and popularity have led to
regular exhibitions, especially at prominent London gallery
Browse& Darby. Her work is held in private and public
collections worldwide, from London's V&Ato the Yale Center for
British Art.
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