About the artist

I’m Diana, a painter based in Paris. I work in oil — mostly flowers and landscapes, with the occasional turn toward figurative portraiture.

What drives the work is colour: how two tones behave side by side, how a palette can carry an entire feeling. I come to painting with an eye shaped by interiors and design, and I work attentively.

I came to this deliberately, and not first. After several years in Belgium as a doctoral researcher and then as a political advisor, I moved to Paris in 2024 with my husband and daughter, and finally gave myself to the childhood dream I had set aside.

This past year has been devoted to technique and research. This site is the record of that: a rigorous (but lots of fun!) path of research, discovering all the exhibitions, galleries and museums Paris has to offer. What this website doesn’t show are the hours behind it — weekly art history classes at the École du Louvre, and morphology and oil painting from the live model at the Académie des Beaux-Arts (living my dream indeed!).

I also accept commissions, and I welcome them with genuine curiosity — a subject chosen by someone else is a reliable way to be pushed somewhere I wouldn’t have gone on my own. And that’s something I’ll always say yes to. My available work can be seen here and on Instagram. If you’re interested in a studio visit or a commission, I’d love to hear from you.