Diane Howse British

Diane Howse approaches painting as a process of discovery. Working directly with oil paint and oil stick on linen, she lets colour, gesture, and material guide each work as layers are built, altered, and partially removed. Forms emerge only through this physical exchange, where vivid and muted tones meet in shifting relationships and marks range from broad sweeps to quick, incisive gestures. Remaining entirely abstract, the layered surfaces invite the viewer’s imagination, prompting fleeting associations that appear and dissolve within the movement of colour and texture. Rooted in a heightened attentiveness to visual experience, Howse’s paintings translate moments of perception into material form, instigating pareidolic visions in the eye of the observer.