Diane Rendle : Invoking the Muse
'Invoking the Muse’ is a collection of paintings which explore human needs and responses shaped by beliefs that merge with both traditional and modern culture.
Rendle was born in Tanzania and her work is centred around her formative years spent living in East Africa and Botswana and through her love of culture and travel.
Her paintings explore the richness and diversity within culture, creating imagined figurative scenes; utilising a rich vibrant palette - in keeping with her subject matter.
A graduate of Hornsey College of Art, she worked in design consultancies in London and Edinburgh, before settling in the Scottish Borders, where she has been painting ever since. In recent years she has been commissioned to paint covers for the back catalogue of Alexander McCall Smith’s best selling “No.1 Ladies’ Detective” series, which is set in Botswana. Diane has regularly been showing at the Open Eye Gallery since 1999. Her work is in private collections throughout the UK.
