Diane Walkey

I was brought up on the Gower Coast in South Wales. I studied Stained Glass at Swansea Art College, Glass & Ceramics at Stourbridge Art College, and Glassblowing at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. I spent some years teaching Art & Design, Fine Art, Sculpture & Ceramics and studying for an MA in Art & Design Education at Manchester Polytechnic. I am a professional working artist, I paint, draw, take photographs,make artist's books, and also work as a Book illustrator . I am also a tutor on Painting and Photography courses for The Open College of the Arts. I live and work in West Wales, near the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path and the Ceredigion Coast. My work has been exhibited widely. I was outright winner of The Independent/Energy Saving Trust National Photography Competition in 2003 and consequently, my work was on display at The Science Museum, London for three months in 2003/4. I have also had work shown in a Royal Photograph Society's International Print Show, Wexford Artists Book Exhibition, which travelled Eire, Y Tabernacl, Machynlleth, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, and many other venues. I recently co-curated 'Lines & Strata' - Welsh Drawing Show and competition, open to Artists from all over the Principality, shown at Oriel Mwldan, Cardigan, and am a co-curator of Lines & Strata 2, which will tour Wales in 2010. Visitors to my studio in Tanygroes, Cardigan, Ceredigion, are welcome throughout the year, though you are advised to Email first.