About the Paintings

Since I have been writing poems for most of my life, and I think of my poems as attempts to capture a feeling, an emotion, or an idea that expresses something that is true for a moment, I also think of my paintings as "poems" of this kind. Instead of using language, which is necessarily a more conscious process, I use color and form to express these inner states—which procedure, it seems to me, is somehow a more direct route from the intuitive or unconscious to the canvas.

These paintings then are, like poems, an attempt to capture an inner state of being, which is true and real for a moment, and which would otherwise be lost in time.

- Diana Underhill