Diana Lee-Gobbitt was born in Bury St Edmunds, England in 1943. She studied art from 1958-1960 at Braintree College; with painters & sculptors John Jake Clark and Deirdre Mackay. and emigrated to Auckland, New Zealand in 1966 at the age 22. In the 1970s she studied at the University of Otago, Dunedin School of Fine Arts for a Dip F A Painting with William A. Reed and Roy Dickinson, and studied and worked with Michael Smither and Francis Hodgkins. She continued painting studies with the late Colin McCahon; Robert (Bob) McLaren; Garth Tapper and Patrick Hanly. Diana Lee-Gobbitt moved to Sydney 1990. The artist has over 60 group and solo exhibits to her credit, and continues to exhibit.
The earliest auction listing we have for Diana Lee-Gobbitt is in 2008 and in total 9 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 8 (89%) were sold. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2020.
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