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THE META-REALISTS IN GALERIE ARTIM, NOV '76
Top: Johan Hermsen and Victor Linford
Middle: Ellen Lórien and Diana Vandenberg
Bottom: Frans Erkelens and Johfra
Missing: Han Koning
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While Johfra and Ellen had moved in the meantime to Aspremont in the south of France, Diana also bought a holiday home there in Garos, and visited the couple in 1966. Her association with them continued when the gallerist Jan Blok organized a travelling exhibition in 1974 called ‘The Seven Meta-Realists’. Passing through several cities in Holland and Belgium, over 48,000 people visited the well-received show.
The poster for the exhibition was painted by Diana. Called The Mandala of Love, Johfra appeared at the top of the circle with Diana to the right and Ellen Lórien to the left. Below them figured the remaining four: Victor Linford, Han Koning, Johan Hermsen and Frans Erkelens. After this media coup, the work of all seven painters was in much demand and commanded high prices.
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DIANA VANDENBERG IN HER STUDIO
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Diana continued to paint Hermetic works along with her portrait commissions. These Hermetic works were also reproduced as book covers and five of them (The Tree of Life series) became posters for Verkerke. In 1969, a book by J. Stellingwerff was published, The Hermetic Art of Diana Vandenberg (in Dutch only), which offered colour reproductions and extensive commentary, while also cataloguing the 250 works she’d done up to that time.
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