About Angela Dierks
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Education
2007 - 2009
London Metropolitan University
1992 - 1993
University of Oxford, St Cross College
Awards
2015
Artgallery.co.uk - Artist of the Year 2015
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Event: Refresh
Dates: 3 Feb 2024 - 17 Mar 2024
With broadly differing studio practices, mediums and ideas, this will be a quintessential group show of brought together with a desire to refresh the first, second and upstairs gallery spaces and give our visitors the opportunity to catch up with what these seventeen artists have been busy working on in their studios.
Event: Winter Show
Dates: 7 Nov 2023 - 8 Feb 2024
A selection of work by local artists.
Event: Colour and Movement
Dates: 19 Aug 2023 - 26 Aug 2023
A selection of recent work on show.
Event: Summer Exhibition
Dates: 1 Aug 2023 - 31 Aug 2023
A selection of national and international artists showing their work for the annual summer show.
Event: Open 2023
Dates: 22 Jul 2023 - 27 Aug 2023
Show casing the best of UK contemporary art.
Event: Summer Exhibition
Dates: 1 May 2023 - 31 Oct 2023
A highly curated exhibition with of artists from across the world showing individual art work.
Event: The Other Art Fair
Dates: 9 Mar 2023 - 12 Mar 2023
I will be showing a selection of my more recent work.
Event: Colour and Movement
Dates: 27 Apr 2022 - 5 Jun 2022
A selection of recent work.
Event: Angela Dierks Paintings
Dates: 11 Feb 2019 - 25 Feb 2019
Recent work on show.
Event: Group Show
Dates: 1 Dec 2018 - 31 Jan 2019
A selection of affordable art on show.
Event: Angela Dierks solo show
Dates: 15 Sep 2017 - 29 Sep 2017
A selection of my more recent work.
Event: Angela Dierks Landscape Studies
Dates: 13 Aug 2017 - 20 Jul 2017
A selection of framed landscape studies.
Event: Angela Dierks Paintings
Dates: 8 Jul 2017 - 8 Jul 2017
A selection of affordable, framed landscape studies will be available at my stall at this local fair.
Event: Mardleybury Gallery
Dates: 1 Jul 2016 - 31 Jul 2016
An exhibition of a few select abstract landscapes.
Event: Angela Dierks Solo Show
Dates: 1 Mar 2016 - 3 Mar 2016
A selection of my work will be available at Starfish, 92 Aldermans Hill, Palmers Green, London N13.
Event: Angela Dierks Paintings
Dates: 23 Aug 2015 - 31 Oct 2015
A large selection of my current work is now on show at Finch.
Event: Art on the High Street
Dates: 31 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2015
A selection of work by local artists.
Event: Designer Craft & Art Fair Sunday 16th November
Dates: 16 Nov 2014 - 16 Nov 2014
A fair with a wide representation of local artists and designers.
Biography
My background as an artist is somewhat unusual. I graduated from King's College London with a BA German and followed this with MSt in European Literature at St Cross College, University of Oxford, in 1992. My first love has always been the written word. Over the years I developed a strong interest in the world of therapy having studied psychoanalytic readings of texts as part of my MSt. I started studying for a Counselling degree and completed an MA Integrative Counselling in 2009 followed by further courses in the field of psychotherapy and counselling. Both literature and psychotherapy continue to inform my work as an artist. While I never formally studied art I had been exploring different forms of expression - beyond language - for several years. The world of therapy opened up an exploration of the unconcious processes that painting helped me to access. The other, most obvious, connection between the profession of therapist and artist 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 and more recent work is influenced by my psychotherapy training; the pieces were concerned with memories and dreams peeling away at them layer by layer. The other, constant focus of inspiration for me is the natural world which I return to at regular intervals in my work. More recently I started to be more pre-occupied with the internal world again. As a child I was fascinated by maps, copying the contours of continents and colouring in the different countries. In my latest work I am returning to this childhood love by painting imaginary maps of external and internal worlds, taking us to places that are "not down on any map; true places never are.” (Herman Melville, Moby Dick)
Each of my pieces is unique and takes time 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.
My work has been sold to art collectors internationally with many returning customers.
