Diana Hopman

My passion for painting started in 1999, at an oil painting workshop in Scottsdale, Arizona. After a couple of years I’ve tried acrylic paint and haven’t stopped since. Not only do I paint on regular canvas, I also work on wooden boxes, driftwood and paper collages.
Although painting is my first love, I also like making glass beads, mosaics, pottery and ceramics. 

Since an early age, I’ve has been interested in travel, geography, history and maps of any kind especially maps of other countries. 

This interest, combined with my desire to recycle brought me to this current project: where I combine and repurpose old maps, stamps, encyclopedias and travel magazines as a backdrop to paint on.

My surfing, snorkeling and scuba diving kids are a source of inspiration but that's not all. From pineapples and palm trees to cutlery, turtles and other sea life, all of my work has the island vibe and will bring the island life into any home.

I have my work on display in various galleries and shops around the island and have been a participant of the Aruba Art Fair for many years. 

In 2023 Post Aruba, the Aruba postoffice, commissioned me to design four stamps and the “first day of issue” envelop, for them in commemoration of “World mental health day” on the 10th of October, 2023. These stamps and the envelope are still available at the post office. 
And once again in December 2024, the Aruba post office commissioned the design of the commemorative stamp, celebrating 150 years of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), a specialized agency of the United Nations that connects postal services around the world. The stamps is valued at Afl. 12.80, and comes as a souvenir sheet and is available at the Aruba post office.