Angela Dierks

London based, German mixed media artist Angela graduated from the University of Oxford, UK with a Master of Studies in European Literature (1993) followed by an MA in Integrative Counselling (2009) and Diplomas in Couples Psychotherapy (2012) and Clinical Supervision (2014).

Angela started painting in 2006. She is a self-taught as an artist with both literature and psychotherapy influencing her work as an abstract expressionist painter. In her work as an artist Angela explores themes that emerge in her practice as a psychotherapist: art allows her to translate complex emotional experiences into visual, lyrical marks on canvas.

Between 2021-2022 Angela was mentored by the artist Jens Kilian at the Freie Akademie für Malerei, Düsseldorf, Germany, which gave her a more formal understanding of the underlying principles of painting and enabled her to understand and formulate her own process as an artist more clearly.

Angela’s work is regularly on show in UK galleries as well as abroad. Her work can be found in private collections across the globe both in residential as well as office environments.