Diana Peyton (born 1928) began her artistic career with ceramics. She always considered her ceramic work to be abstract sculpture, and in recent years has made a natural transition to figurative work in bronze. Her figures explore the connections that people make through physical contact and intimate touch. The purity of their forms exude vitality and strength. Yet their scale also hints at our vulnerability.
Diana studied painting and pottery at the Camberwell School of Art. Extensive travel and long periods of residence in the Middle East gave her the opportunity to study early Islamic pottery and the working methods of traditional craftsmen in India. Diana incorporates some of the techniques that she has observed into the rendering of her figures in clay or wax. The final pieces are then cast in bronze. Contrary to the position of most galleries, Diana maintains that her figures are meant to be touched and played with. She says that, "bronze has a surface allure that people often miss by not touching."
At rest or in motion, Diana's subjects silently express their potential to act. Her small figures examine the connections that human beings make both between themselves and with the infinite space around us.
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