Diana Kirkpatrick is a fine artist specializing in sanded charcoal drawing and oil painting. Her work has won numerous prestigious awards and been featured in multiple print publications.

Diana’s art is a celebration of the quotidian, capturing everyday people in moments of quiet contemplation. Throughout history, portraiture has been an art form traditionally reserved for the elite. But through her work, Diana hopes to elevate the equally worthy subjects we find all around us to the level of royalty. There is an unflinching honesty to her work that catches the viewer’s eye and won’t let them look away.

Her technique when drawing is tedious and time consuming, involving meticulously sanding charcoal into large-scale heavy printmaking paper until a figure appears. She often describes this process as the image appearing through smoke.

Diana currently resides in South Carolina and is available for commissions.