The new
paintings fuse, in Cranston's idiosyncratic way, her ongoing interest in color theory and how it functions within consumer culture vis - a-vis corporate marketing and
branding strategies, as well as its relationship to personal and collective experience, with the aesthetics and history of high Modernist abstraction.
Though radically different in their painterly
strategies, both bodies of work exploit a particular
brand of wet - on - wet
painting, which has come to define Diamond's mature style.