Painter · Mixed-media artist
Color in
motion.
Diana Lemcoff creates richly layered abstractions where gesture, memory, and the material life of color meet.
Explore the work ↘Selected works
01 — 16
01 / Paintings
Fields of
experience
Layered surfaces hold traces of motion: scraped lines, veils of pigment, and flashes of saturated color.
02 / Sculptural works
The canvas
as object
Rotated planes and tactile studies push painting toward a physical, spatial presence.
03 / Biography
A life shaped
by art.
AmphoraDiana Lemcoff is a Connecticut-based visual artist whose practice includes painting, sculpture, works on paper, and mixed media. She began studying art at the age of nine and returned to formal art training after moving to Connecticut in 2002. She has studied at the West Hartford Art League, the University of Hartford, and Manchester Community College.
Lemcoff holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Westminster in London, United Kingdom. Her professional experience includes teaching and information technology management. She is also the founder of Leidan Consulting, a database and web design company based in Simsbury, Connecticut. She has taught computer applications at Manchester Community College and for community organizations, including the Simsbury Public Library.
Her work has been selected for juried exhibitions at Manchester Community College, Gallery on the Green, the West Hartford Art League, the Kent Art Association, the Hospital for Special Care, ArtWalk in West Hartford, and the Wintonbury Art League. She has received recognition from the Manchester Community College Art Competition, juried by Erin Monroe, curator at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, and from Gallery on the Green in Canton.
Lemcoff has presented solo exhibitions at the Unitarian Society of Hartford, Simsbury Public Library, FastFrame in Simsbury, The Investment Center, Simsbury Open Studios, and the West Hartford Art League. Her work has also appeared in group exhibitions at the University of Hartford’s Silpe Gallery, Manchester Community College, and the West Hartford Art League.
04 / Artist statement
Between thought
and instinct.
I want the finished piece to become more than its subject, materials, or process. I want it to be encountered and felt before it is explained.
I dreamed of becoming a painter as a child and began taking art lessons at nine. Although museums and galleries were a constant presence in my life, I did not know any practicing artists and never imagined that art could become my own path. Encouraged to pursue a more “practical” career, I studied computer science. Yet art remained essential to me—as a viewer, a reader, and, eventually, a maker.
After moving to Connecticut in 2002, I returned to painting and studied at the West Hartford Art League, the University of Hartford, and Manchester Community College. Over time, art moved from the margins of my life to its center.
My work often begins with a moment of recognition: a shape, a color, a composition, or a small detail that suddenly distinguishes itself from its surroundings. A photograph, something I have read, or a personal experience may remain with me for months or even years before finding its way into a work. The original source is less important than the question it leaves behind: Why did this particular detail demand my attention at that particular moment?
As I return to it, memory and present emotion transform what I first observed. I consider the structure of the composition, the feeling I want to convey, and the materials best suited to it. This period of reflection can be slow and deliberate, but once the essential elements are resolved, the act of making often becomes loose, spontaneous, and physical. At other times, the material calls for patience and restraint. The resulting work may be a painting, sculpture, work on paper, or mixed-media piece.
Color is central to my visual language. I think in color; I dream in color. Color has an authority of its own—it can attract, unsettle, energize, or calm us before thought intervenes. I am drawn to that immediate, instinctive response. Calligraphic lines bring another kind of energy to the work, creating movement, rhythm, and gesture.
Making art is both a pleasure and a struggle. My work moves like a pendulum between concentrated stillness and bursts of physical energy, between careful thought and intuitive action.
Paintings ask to be experienced; sculptures invite touch. Through both, I seek that rare moment when something familiar becomes unexpected—and the soul is taken by surprise.
05 / Selected works
Gesture,
rhythm,
resonance.
A focused selection of works that reveals the artist’s recurring vocabulary: vivid chromatic fields, improvised line, and layered traces of the hand.
06 / Contact
Begin a
conversation.
For artwork availability, exhibitions, commissions, or studio visits, please get in touch.
dianaartist1@gmail.com ↗