Diana Neale exhibition at The Little Gallery

THE ELEMENTAL LANDSCAPE: EARTH, AIR, FIRE & WATER

A new exhibition of works by local artist Diana Neale.

Diana Neale works from her garden studio in the heart of the Pewsey Vale, with panoramic views of Salisbury Plain and the North Wessex Downs. After twenty years in private psychotherapy practice, she became a full-time artist in 2016, bringing sensitivity and perception into her painting.

Rooted in the local landscape, Neale’s paintings offer an imaginative engagement with place, blending memory, atmosphere, and intuition to create spaces that feel both familiar and timeless.

The work unfolds through layers of land, time, place, and material, built through oil, cold wax, dry pigment, and tissue-paper collage. The paintings offer the romance of the remote, the sparse, and the ancient.

‘This is ancient land, and the evidence is in the soil; lots of worked flint and other artifacts. This is where I feel most connected, deeply rooted.’

Drawing on what Alfred Watkins described as a ‘flood of ancestral memory’, Neale enters a terrain where time collapses and the land carries the echoes of countless ages — the contours of time itself. Neale’s paintings invite us into this space, where earth, fire, air, and water become pathways for connection and reflection.