Diana Motta


Master of Fine Arts in Studio, Painting and Drawing

The ambiguous relationship between the linear and the background in my paintings furthers my goal to strive to create a dynamic, hybrid form that suggests the beauty and power  –  as well as the complicated questions of mysticism and the cosmic. In other words, my own notion of cosmology, which is also central to some current artists that use ecological platforms; reflecting on the problem of finding a better and new way of balancing chaos with the natural world. As an artist, researcher, spiritual guide and thinker, my paintings are more than just paintings. They become objects of connection. Also expressed is an interest around the intersection of new expressionism and new mysticisms. In the second group of paintings, there is an emphasis on a spiritual atmosphere. Softness, vulnerability and openness. They stand alone. They are samplers of some aspect of spirituality. The paintings are meditative moments that seem to be necessary at the time.