Diana Savostaite

Crumbling Walls / Venice,

Oil, sand & wax on canvas,

38 x 20cm

About:

Diana Savostaite is a contemporary artist based in East London. Diana is a graduate of Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania, where she achieved a BA in Fine Arts/Painting.
Diana has had several solo shows: “Going back to My Roots”, Thame-Side Studios, London (2023), Cole’s Gallery, Leeds (2020), Thames-Side Studios, London (2019 and 2017), Art Fix Gallery, London, (2017). Selected group exhibitions include Jackson’s Art Prize (2024), “Chaucer x Mall Galleries” The Scalpel Project (2023), “Self Portrait Prize” Ruth Borchard Collection (2023), “Works on Paper” Blue Shop Gallery (2024), Art for Charity Collective, Unit-1 Gallery|Workshop (2022), Radical Residency VI, Unit-1 Gallery|Workshop (2021), “Summer Exhibition”, Royal Academy of Arts (2020). In 2021 Diana was selected to participate in a one-month residency “Radical Residency VI” at Unit-1 Gallery| Workshop in London.

In 2020 Diana won an artist’s open call with Colle’s Gallery in Leeds and was awarded a solo exhibition. In 2017 she was awarded with Winsor and Newton Young Artist Award at “The Royal Institute of Oil Painters”, Mall Galleries, London.

Permanent public collections include The Chaucer Group (2023) at The Scalpel skyscraper (London), and Blue Shop Gallery (London).

Diana's artwork draws inspiration from keen observations of the natural world and a profound absorption of her daily experiences—capturing sights, sounds, and emotions. Her creative process aims to articulate the intangible, expressing what may be unseen by the naked eye but can be sensed through bodily sensations.

Throughout her artistic journey, Diana's practice has evolved through the exploration of diverse mediums, textures, and canvas shapes. In her recent paintings, Diana has introduced embroidery collages, influenced by her upbringing in the Lithuanian countryside where embroidery held a significant place in her life.
 
Delving into the process, Diana makes various shaped canvases and connects them into large compositions. These experimental shapes serve as guiding principles in Diana's painting. Unusual structures extend outward, disrupting the conventional wall space, while the surrounding areas infiltrate the constructed forms. These painted shapes are in perpetual motion, emphasizing the ever-changing nature and the dynamic interplay of energies.