About Barbara Diniz

I was born in Brazil, raised between Brazil and the United States, and began drawing and selling my work as a child before abandoning the idea of art as a vocation under the pressure to choose something more “practical.” I studied civil engineering technology, moved through sales, and eventually worked in cyber-security, where I thrived intellectually until burnout and depression forced a reckoning with my own limits. When my mind and body could no longer carry me, I turned back to God and to painting — not as therapy or escape, but as a return to origin. My work now examines the quiet tension between what we present and what we endure, treating vulnerability not as weakness but as a site of truth. My upcoming collection, The Pulse Beneath the Skin (2026), explores rebellion, fragility, repentance, and the persistence of life beneath control and sterility — grey bodies over red grounds, insisting that beneath detachment and perfectionism, something living still waits to be revealed.