To help you get to know the Studio Fridays artists better, back in February I asked each of them to share three pieces of their work and answer three questions about their practice. Here is……

Diana Sandetskaya

1. My favourite work from last year is:

2. The piece I am working on now is:

I have been working on this Night Garden painting (Oil on wooden panel, 30 x 30 cm). I think it is finished but I might consider a few finishing touches to it.

3. My favourite work ever is:

It is almost impossible to choose my favourite painting ever… maybe it could be one of the sunsets:

Sunset in the park XXIX
Oil on gesso board
40 x 50 cm

4. My highlight of 2025 was?

My highlight was exhibiting at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition. I was very grateful to take part in many other wonderful exhibitions in London and across the UK – in Wales, Norfolk, Cotswolds, Bath and Deal in Kent.  I was also pleased to have my work highly commended in the Landscape category of the Broadway Arts Festival and winning the 1st prize at my local art society annual exhibition.

5. What subjects are you most interested in?

I love painting the evening and the night – something special and almost magical happens at this time of the day and I want to capture in my paintings the atmosphere that I feel  – the transformation of the light, colours and the mood that it brings.

6. What pieces are you working on at the moment? 

I have started a new series of works – nocturnal scenes and gardens but this time not in suburban London, but Provence in France.