Dani Humberstone

Born in London in 1965, Dani was educated at Michael Hall School (Rudolph Steiner School) in East Sussex.

She trained as a fashion designer in Brighton and developed a design business which won the Princes Youth Business Trust award in 1988.

She then worked in graphic design and book illustration, for an eclectic mix of art and design clients. Highlights included: nightclubs, a Tokyo-based Internet Corporation, authors, BT (in house magazine), restaurants, an Osteopathic clinic, psychotherapy treatment rooms, offices & reception areas, waiting rooms and schools – including a commission from Glaxo Smith Klein.

For ten years Dani owned and created the artwork for a greetings card company called ‘Cards That Won’t Cost The Earth.’ Principal customers included: Boots, Athena, Paperchase and Books etc. International customers included HEMA in The Netherlands.

More recently she has spend time as a freelance Gallery Manager and curator and is Chairman of the prestigious East Sussex based ‘The September Art Exhibition‘.

Dani has been a professional painter for twelve years and exhibit work in galleries, art fairs and group exhibitions.

She has recently finished work on her second teaching book on Abstract painting and has a third book of her own work called Going Dutch’ due out this summer.

Artists comments
Dani’s painting technique is a combination of modern and traditional oil painting methods. She uses ‘glazing’ to create three dimensional, luminous effects. ‘Chiascuro’ – strong light and shade give the paintings their atmosphere and depth. All paintings are made freehand and are painted from life, she says:

“Painting from life gives the work richness in tone, figurative realism and a glow only really found in objects reacting to their surroundings and being translated by the human eye‘s ability to see three dimensions.“

“My Current work features strongly lit still life oils, predominantly fruit. Some combine an elements of abstraction, landscape or something entirely different. By way of a description I call it ’Synchromatic Realism‘.”

“The viewer of a painting is an essential participant, the final piece of the jigsaw, so to speak, – giving it validity and significance.”