DIANA ARMFIELD, RA, RWS Diana Armfield was born in 1920 in Ringwood, Hampshire and attended Bedales School. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, where she first met her husband, fellow artist and RA, Bernard Dunstan, and the Central School of Arts and Crafts. Her long and distinguished career as a quintessentially English painter includes a period of teaching at The Byam Shaw School of Art in 1959, and being invited to be Artist in Residence in Perth, Australia in 1985 and in Jackson, Wyoming in 1989. In 1991, she was elected to the Royal Academy. Diana Armfield works from observation and experience. Her primary subjects, landscapes and flower studies, capture the nuances of time and space and light and nature in paint. Diana admits that in her art, she always tries to express something that she admires, enjoys or loves: “The last thing I’m thinking about is expressing myself” This reticence to claim the foreground as an artist is what draws so many admirers to her work. Her concern is with the subject and with the act of painting, so that she can translate into paint things and experiences of lasting importance; in this way, her paintings display remarkable honesty and candour. Diana Armfield is a Member of the Royal Watercolour Society, the New English Art Club, the Royal West of England Academy, and an honorary Member of the Pastel Society. She lives and works in London and Wales where she has exhibited extensively. Her work is eagerly collected and can be found in many private collections as well as at the Royal Academy Diploma Collection, The Victoria and Albert Museum (Textiles), The Royal West of England Academy Collection, and the Government Picture Collection in London.