Artist     Diana Armfield
Title      Flowers in Victorian Jug
Date      1970's
object    Painting
Media    oil
Size       26 x 18.5cm
Ref         528

Purchased from the 121st RWA Annual Exhibition in 1973

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Flowers in Victorian Jug
Born in June 1920, Diana Armfield studied at the Slade School and Central School of Arts and Crafts. She is known not only as a painter but also for her early textile and wallpaper designs, which are included in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Landscape is a major subject in her work, as well as still lives and interiors. She invariably works within a small format never exceeding 50X 60 cms.

Commenting on her work, Diana Armfield has said:

If I'm landscape painting, I may be looking for the subject in those places which appear at first unruly- wild country, sea or sky, tumbling rocks. All are subject to the big ordering forces of the weather, growth of seasonal change…. Or I look at those parts where man has modified the landscape; vineyards, olive groves, quarries, towns.'

Since 1965 Diana Armfield has been a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy, New Grafton Gallery, New English Art Club and Browse and Darby, London, amongst other venues. She has work in the Royal West of England Gallery Permanent Collection as well as numerous other public and private collections. She holds membership to the Royal Academy and New English Art Club as well as the RWA. Twice she reached the finals of the Hunting Prize in the 1980's and she won the Agnew's New English Art Club Prize in the early 1990's.

Elected as a full member of the Royal Academy in June 1991 she has written of her work:

I work from observation and experience; draw and paint what I can admire, enjoy or love; to share with others what I discover and reflect on. I hope to reveal and confirm that the things and experiences I paint are of lasting importance and enormously worth cherishing. To translate into paint is always a challenge and something of a mystery.

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