Angela Dierks

Based in United Kingdom
After a long career in higher education I discovered two new passions in my life in 2006: art and psychotherapy. I retrained as a therapist and have been continuously working towards improving my artistic output ever since that ‘Eureka’ moment. The most obvious connection between these two professions is the preoccupation with emotions. In my therapeutic work I talk about emotions; in my art I aim to translate emotions into visual markers on canvas.
Much of my earlier range of work was influenced by my psychotherapy training; the pieces were concerned with memories and dreams peeling away at them layer by layer. The work that followed were abstract representations of landscapes finding inspiration in the beauty of the outside world: gentle landscapes in the UK, the Arctic Circle, the warm and fiery tones of Mediterranean countryside, dramatic skyscapes and the movement of the sea and the dramatic beauty of flowers.
Viewers often comment on the strong colours that I use in my work. Observing nature offers the inspiration for the vivid greens, magentas and yellows that are frequently found in my work. Try as I might I struggle to work in monochromes – colour always creeps in and takes over. There is a joyfulness to experimenting with colour that is very rewarding for me.
Each of my pieces is unique and takes time to develop. I aim to lend as much ‘feel’ to my paintings as possible, ‘controlling’ the painting as much as possible while also allowing for more spontaneity and risk by applying paint in a variety of ways: smudging, scraping, flicking, squeezing and rubbing paint onto the canvas, scratching paint off and re-starting the process. The process thus mirrors the natural eroding process that happens in the development of landscapes.
My work has been sold to art collectors internationally with many returning customers.
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Fired Earth II
Mixed Media - 23.6"x31.5"£580.00 -
Bed of Flowers
Mixed Media - 39.4"x39.4"£1,200.00 -
Stellar World
Mixed Media - 27.6"x39.4"£900.00 -
Celestial Body
Mixed Media - 27.6"x39.4"£900.00 -
Golden Earth
Mixed Media - 23.6"x31.5"£680.00 -
New Terrain
Mixed Media - 19.7"x27.6"£550.00 -
Following the Path
Mixed Media - 23.6"x31.5"£640.00 -
Tierra del Fuego - Contemporary diptych
Mixed Media - 47.2"x23.6"SOLD -
Between Sky and Sea
Mixed Media - 55.1"x39.4"£1,500.00 -
Daring to Hope
Mixed Media - 31.5"x31.5"SOLD -
Towards the Light
Mixed Media - 39.4"x39.4"£900.00 -
Don't Forget to Breathe
Mixed Media - 39.4"x31.5"£750.00 -
Rainy Day Flowers
Mixed Media - 23.6"x35.4"£600.00 -
Bright Flowers, Stormy Day
Mixed Media - 31.5"x39.4"£750.00 -
Flower Gathering
Acrylic, Mixed Media - 23.6"x31.5"£590.00 -
Waiting For Sunnier Days
Mixed Media - 31.5"x31.5"£600.00 -
Coming Up For Air
Acrylic, Mixed Media - 63"x23.6"SOLD -
Promising A Rose Garden
Mixed Media - 39.4"x39.4"£850.00 -
May Queen
Acrylic, Mixed Media - 31.5"x31.5"£600.00 -
With a Word and a Flower
Mixed Media - 29.9"x35.8"£650.00 -
Sweet Spring
Acrylic, Mixed Media - 23.6"x23.6"£480.00 -
Soulful Memories II
Mixed Media - 31.5"x39.4"£750.00 -
Blue Islands
Mixed Media - 23.6"x31.5"£550.00 -
Camellia Bloom
Mixed Media - 23.6"x31.5"£550.00 -
Spring Delight
Mixed Media - 31.5"x39.4"SOLD -
Love Maps
Mixed Media - 23.6"x31.5"£550.00 -
Unfolding
Mixed Media - 23.6"x31.5"£550.00 -
Memory of Summer
Mixed Media - 23.6"x31.5"£550.00 -
Remorse is Memory Awake
Acrylic, Mixed Media - 31.5"x39.4"SOLD -
Calling all the Seas
Mixed Media - 31.5"x39.4"£800.00 -
Binding with Briars - Large, contemporary painting
Acrylic, Mixed Media - 39.4"x39.4"£800.00 -
Dreaming under a Lemon Tree on a Cloudy Day
Mixed Media - 23.6"x31.5"£520.00 -
The Rose Inside
Acrylic, Mixed Media - 23.6"x31.5"£500.00 -
Cycle of Life
Acrylic, Mixed Media - 31.5"x39.4"£800.00 -
Into the Deep
Mixed Media - 31.5"x39.4"£800.00 -
Midnight Rose
Mixed Media - 23.6"x31.5"SOLD