"Two Hearts" Diane Chappalley
Diane Chappalley (Born in 1991, in Switzerland, lives and works in London) creates figurative landscapes in oil paint as well as ceramic sculptures that draw on transitional experiences of death and birth, loss and love, trauma and resilience. She addresses themes that are both personal and inherently universal.
In her large canvases, among vast washes of colours that suggest both soil and skin tones, the human figures are still - as if they are carved from stone; statues lost in time. Surrounded by anxious flowers as markers of ritual, her work is deeply spiritual and psychological.
It reflects on our primal emotions, our capacity for rebirth, and our relationship with the natural world.
❦ EDUCATION
Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, MA Fine Art, 2015 – 2017
City and Guilds of London Art School, BA Fine Art, First Class Hons, 2012 – 2015
Bern University of the Arts, Switzerland, Foundation Visual Art, 2011 – 2012