Diana van Hal - Screen print, Title, At Night - Sold

The Dordrecht artist Diana van Hal (1954). She creates linocuts and paintings that bear witness to the joy of life and evoke longings for distant lands. In warm, radiant colors, her work tells stories of music and her long journeys to West Africa, Cuba, and recently Mexico. Van Hal graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam in 1988. During her studies, she had already found a studio in Dordrecht from which she continued to work. Over the years, she gained renown primarily for woodcuts with narrative elements, in which botanical forms, the human figure, and animals play a leading role. Over the years, Van Hal undertook a number of shorter and longer study trips, including to Cuba (2006), West Africa (2009-2010), The Gambia (2011), and Mexico (2011), where she also exhibited and realized projects. In the Netherlands itself, she created a ceiling mural in the Dordrecht City Hall in 2004. In 2011, together with INKT Delft, she created an installation along the quay of the Oude Delft. And in 2014, she created the temporary mural Graffiti at De Kunstrand in Dordrecht, a breeding ground for art and music in Dordrecht.