Diana Battle

(Born 1946)

Available Works

Runaway Bay
Sun and Sand
Coral Sea
Sails
Romance – SOLD
Everglades – SOLD
Days of Summer I – SOLD
Waterlily Waltz – SOLD
Surf and Sand – SOLD
Gulls – SOLD
Surfside I – SOLD
Summertime – SOLD
Surfside II – SOLD
Floral Whispers – SOLD
By the Pond – SOLD
Under the Jacaranda – SOLD
Roses & Shaggy Dahlias – SOLD
Constitution Dock – SOLD
Lazy Days of Summer – SOLD
Palm Cove – SOLD
Sea Breeze – SOLD
Sunflowers in the Wild – SOLD
Towards the Pass, Byron Bay – SOLD
Umbrellas and All That Jazz – SOLD
Nautica – SOLD
Life’s a Beach – SOLD
The Ginger Jar – SOLD
The Green Jug – SOLD
Wattle & Daisies – SOLD
Hazy Days with Pandanus – SOLD
Trek to the Beach – SOLD
Sunshine on My Shoulder – SOLD
Low Tide Walk – SOLD
Gordonia Song – SOLD
The Dock of the Bay – SOLD
Water Garden – SOLD
Yellow Bird – SOLD
Everglades – SOLD
Floral Whisper – SOLD
Life in the Lily Pond – SOLD
Passion in Pink – SOLD
Runaway Bay – SOLD
Flower and Finch – SOLD
Dancing Leaves – SOLD
Reflections in the Tide – SOLD
Summer Shade – SOLD
Umbrellas in the Sand – SOLD
Afternoon Walk – SOLD
Courtyard Coffee – SOLD
Yellow Lily with Agapanthus – SOLD
Springtime – SOLD
The Lotus Pool – SOLD
The Moorings – SOLD
Pretty in Pink – SOLD
Blue Bird of Happiness – SOLD
Bliss – SOLD
Waterlilies – SOLD
The Shallows – SOLD
Falling Leaves II – SOLD
Beach Walk – SOLD
Beach Magic – SOLD
Down by the Jetty – SOLD
Coloured Sands – SOLD
Happiness with Bluebird – SOLD
Pacific Blue – SOLD
Lake Symphony II – SOLD
Fleeting Visitors – SOLD
Tenterfield Walk – SOLD
A Daisy a Day – SOLD
Flannel Flowers & Doves – SOLD
Lake Symphony – SOLD
Picnic Under the Pandanus – SOLD
Marina Gulls – SOLD
Morning Dip – SOLD
Autumn Magic – SOLD
Water’s Edge – SOLD
Along the Fairway – SOLD
Bush Walk, Noosa North Shore – SOLD
Marina – SOLD

Artist's Biography

Diana Battle is an established and well-respected Queensland artist who has been exhibiting her beautiful, colourful paintings for decades.

Born in Brisbane in 1946, Diane lived there for twenty years before moving to Papua New Guinea to work for The Department of Treasury in Port Moresby and then the South Pacific Post, the local newspaper. Marriage and six children followed, and Diana focused most of her time on family life.

In 1977 Diana spent time overseas which gave her the wonderful opportunity to visit art galleries in London, France and Italy. In recent years she has also enjoyed more visits to galleries in Spain, St. Petersburg and New York, which has made a valuable contribution to her art education and appreciation.

In the mid 1980’s Diana and her family settled in Toowoomba and she painted whenever she found spare time, improvising her painting area by using shelving, an ironing board and a stool.  Diana jokes that the ironing board was the perfect height for creating artworks and certainly much more fun than doing the ironing!

As well as the beauty of the colour that is always present in Diana’s works, atmosphere and light are of primary importance to her, where the subjects are often abstracted, and even stylized. Diana paints a broad range of subjects, including landscapes, street scenes, florals and beach scenes.

Diana’s father, who was a professional photographer, encouraged her artistic talent and advised her to “see”, and observe more deeply, rather than to simply presume what she thought was obvious.

This way of viewing the world is conveyed in the intuitive style that Diana adopts in her paintings, whereby the scene unfolding on the canvas is not strictly realistic and immediately clear, and colours and shapes take on a more adventurous and creative representation that leads us to look a little closer and to interact more intimately with the scene in front of us.

An active member in her local cultural scene, Diana volunteers and exhibits with the Toowoomba Art Society and her works have been included in several group exhibitions at the Society and also in art galleries in the Darling Downs and with Tiffany Jones Fine Art Consultant at Buderim on the Sunshine Coast.

On addition to her exhibiting experience, Diana has also participated in many Summer Schools and workshops and enjoys the stimulation that this continuing education brings to her work.

Diana is the recipient of several art awards, including many prizes from the Toowoomba Art Society, People’s Choice award at the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers and in 2017 she entered the Archibald Portrait Prize with a large and striking portrait of her brother David, a professional photographer.

Diana’s works are popular with art collectors and her pieces are represented in many private Australian collections.