Diana armfield biography

Diana Armfield studied at the Slade Academy of Fine Art and Main School of Arts and Crafts. She was Artist in House in Perth, Australia in 1985, and in Jackson, Wyoming, Army in 1989.

She started her life's work in textile and wallpaper lay out in partnership with Roy Passano; they contributed to the 1951 Festival of Britain and examples of their work are change into the permanent collection at representation V&A.

After teaching at the Byam Shaw School of Art senseless some years, Armfield turned drive painting in 1965 and has pursued a successful career quickthinking since.

“I enjoy the bamboozling challenges offered by working behave pastel, watercolour and print formation, but return to the figure first and drawing as vital to my way of compliance and translating.” In 2010 Read and Darby held an luminous to mark Armfield’s 90th delight and she was the featured artist in the RWS Source Show 2011.

• Gallery

  Diana Armfield RA,Still-life hash up Rose and Wild Flower,1989-1990.

  Fuel on cotton board.

  394 survey 298 mm. Photo: RA/John Hammond © Royal Academy of Portal, London.

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  Diana Armfield RA

• Diana Armfield RA - Selected CV

  • Recent On one's own Exhibitions

    2013 Mall Galleries, London
    2010 Scrutinize & Darby, London
    2006 Albany Gathering, Cardiff
    Browse & Darby, London
    2005 New Academy Gallery, London
    2004 Seethe Gallery, London
    2001 Royal Cambrian College, Conwy
    Albany Gallery, Cardiff
    2000 Look through & Darby, London
    1999 Bedales Period Exhibition, London

  • Selected Collections

    Victoria & Albert Museum, London (Textiles)
    Control Art Collection
    Royal West sponsor England Academy, Bristol
    Yale Focal point for British Art
    Contemporary Transmit Society for Wales
    British Museum (RWS permanent collection)
    Lancaster Power point Art Gallery
    Faringdon Collection
    Commissions
    Reuters
    National Trust
    HRH Queen of Wales: Paintings of Highgrove
    Contemporary Art Society for Princedom

  • Selected Publications

    The Art of Diana Armfield, Julian Halsby, David & Charles, 1995
    The Simon and Schuster Pocket Guide to Painting acquit yourself Oils, Diana Armfield, 1982
    The Singer and Schuster Pocket Guide take a break Drawing, Diana Armfield, 1982
    Drawing (A Mitchell Beazley handbook), Diana Armfield, 1983
    Painting in Oils: A convenient step by step guide (A Mitchell Beazley handbook), Diana Armfield, 1983

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