Cyber

'Whether painting from sources that are deeply personal to the artist or images from mass media, Copperwhite's paintings relate strongly to memory. The dreamlike quality to Copperwhite's work is not only achieved by her choice of imagery but is very much tied in with the physical act of painting itself. Copperwhite claims that the first painted layer is never strong enough; images get painted over, she changes her mind and gradually a history builds up. For the painting to emerge she must be willing to destroy what she already has. With this repeated working over of the surface, layers are sometimes obliterated by the next, depending on the thickness of oil paint. How we see, how we remember and how we know, are the themes which weave through her work - her paintings revealing a glimpse of a parallel universe balanced between the remembered and real, the abstract and representational' (J. McIntosh, exhibition catalogue, Diana Copperwhite In a Certain Light, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, June - July 2006).