Diana Graça Oliva

Diana is a self-taught artist, born in Portugal, with a background as an Interior Designer, she lived in Milan, and has been based in Kuala Lumpur since 2012. 

Being a perfectionist, and slightly OCD when it comes to her life, she was drawn to action-painting, mainly the dual color works of Barbara Morgan and Lee Krasner, as an escape from self-control over her surroundings. But to create a sense of control in the uncontrolled strokes of action-painting, she started to blend many of her pieces with color blocks, where we can see the minimalist influence of Barnett Newman. 

In the past years, Diana has done several commission works, mainly using acrylic paint on canvas, and she has recently started working with plexiglass to create “floating art strokes".