diane rush - biography
Diane Rush is a 'transplanted American' who moved to Britain more than 20 years ago, developed a love affair with St Ives on holiday, and finally moved there to settle seven years ago. In the century-old artist colony of St Ives, she has found a home after a nomadic life of growing up in and working for the Forces.
She is a painter, printmaker, and pscyhotherapist who paints her own psychology. Working either intuitively with process, shape and colour or from dream images, her inspiration comes from the unconscious. Her paintings have a dreamlike and emotional quality that depict the world of soul and spirit.
Although not drawing directly from the primitive Penwith landscape and sea, she feels their influence at a deep level and believes they inform the personal, internal landscapes she depicts.
She has studied art at the University of Florida, George Washington University (Washington, D.C.), Sir John Cass School of Art (London), and the St Ives School of Painting. She has an MA in Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Her work has appeared in exhibitions at the George Washington University Gallery, Sloop Inn, Mariner's Gallery, Trelissick Gallery, Trelowarren Gallery, and Penlee House Gallery.