Di | Agora Gallery Digitally Represented Artist

DIANNE S M I T H

530 West 25th Street, New York, NY

Di, the artist name of Australian painter Dianne Smith, has been able to pursue her studio practice full time after retiring from teaching art for the past twenty years. Di uses painting to process past and current emotional experiences including grief and the appreciation of beauty and kindness.

Her studio process involves reactive and intuitive brush strokes, rather than approaching a new work with a finished product in mind. She moves paint around with a variety of tools such as brushes, hands, palette knives, and sponges causing an array of marks and textures across canvas surfaces. She also enjoys painting outside, and gains inspiration from nature and her daily observations. Di predominantly uses oil paints, but at times mixes media and includes acrylic, pastels, watercolor, graphite, and ink.

Using abstraction and expressionist painting styles, Di affectively paints both figurative and abstract subject matter. Through her time teaching and engaging with art history, Di is interested in art’s political role. In particular, she hopes to convey themes such as connection, unification, and community.

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Di

Perceptions, 2021 Oil on Canvas 66.5” x 49” $ 2 0 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

The Clothes Line, 2020 Oil on Canvas 54.5” x 25.6” $ 1 2 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

2H’s, 2019 Oil & Gold Leaf on Canvas 48” x 72”

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Abstracted, 2020 Acrylic on Canvas 35.5” x 29.5” $ 1 3 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

What Happened, 2020 Oil on Canvas 48” x 16” $ 1 6 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Nostalgia, 2017 Oil on Canvas 29.5” x 39.5”

$ 1 4 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Apocalypse, 2019 Acrylic & Oil on Canvas 23.5” x 35.5” $ 1 2 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Living Memories, 2019 Oil on Canvas 39.5” x 29.5” $ 1 4 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Can You See, 2017 Oil on Canvas 36” x 36” $ 1 5 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Blues Music, 2019 Acrylic & Oil on Canvas 29.5” x 39.5”

$ 1 4 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Still Life with Space, 2020 Oil on Canvas 31.5” x 27.5” $ 1 5 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Lost It, 2018 Oil & Acrylic on Canvas 39.5” x 29.5” $ 1 4 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

I Can Fly, 2020 Oil on Canvas 28.5” x 43.5”

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Storm Race, 2020 Oil on Canvas 24” x 24” $ 1 0 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Serviette, 2019 Oil & Collage on Canvas 31.5” x 31.5” $ 1 3 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Summer 19-20, 2020 Acrylic & Oil on Canvas 29” x 39.5”

$ 1 4 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

My works are reflective of the world we live in. In short, they are a visual exploration of life, past and present. As this is a world of many social ills, my paintings allow me to concentrate on the beauty that surrounds us all, thus the subject matter alters.

My artistic practice does not allow me to set out to create a contrived concept. Rather, I haphazardly place paint onto the canvas and allow the paint to dictate the image hidden. My technique consists of varied implementations of artistic tools such as, palette knives, brushes, sponges, hands and sometimes no manual interference at all.

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