ABOUT

Emmaleen Diaz has been creating art since she was eight years old. Born in Colombia and raised in Australia, her practice focuses on expressive portrait and abstract painting, often enriched with vibrant colours and bold brush strokes. She is compelled to portray the rich and intricate life stories she sees in the human face and using the spontaneous gestural paint on the canvas to creative vibrant expressive abstract work. Diaz graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree at the National Art School in Sydney (NAS) in 2022.

Diaz was the inaugural artist in residence at Mental Gallery (Bowral, NSW) and has had work exhibited at the Aarwun Gallery in Canberra, Penrith Regional Gallery, Tyger Gallery Yass, Berida Hotel Bowral, Good Space Gallery Chippendale, Centennial Vineyards Bowral , M2 Gallery ,Solo Art exhibition at 107 Redfern studio and Hillview Heritage Hotel, Sutton Forest. She exhibits and sells her works with ArtBid auctions and was featured in the Art Edit magazine 2023 December edition. She was the 2023 recipient of the Creative Arts Scholarship from the Veolia Mulwaree Trust and had her first Solo Art Exhibition at 107 Redfern in 2024 and a group exhibition at M2 Gallery Surry Hills in 2024. She completed a three month residency at the Florence School of Fine Arts during the fall semester of September 2025 and was featured on ABCs Portrait Artist of the Year TV series in 2025 on episode 4 streaming on abciview. Her art influences include Wendy Sharpe, Frida Kahlo, Pablo Picasso , Henri Matisse, Ben Quilty and the German expressionist painters of the 1920s. She is currently creating a body of work for her Next Solo Exhibition inspired by her time away living in Europe. 

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