Diane Coso was born on January 21, 1961, in La Ciotat, Provence — a sun-drenched land whose light has inspired countless painters. From childhood, the pencil became for her a tool of escape, a silent echo in response to an exacting world. After studying medicine at Aix-Marseille University, she specialized in hematology, dedicating her life to treating blood diseases. Since 2002, she has worked at the Paoli-Calmettes Institute, a cancer research and treatment center in Marseille — a vocation she lives with deep empathy, surrounded by human emotion and the proximity of suffering.
Gradually, through an inner necessity, she returned to her first love: painting and color. Her art was born from this tension between science and sensitivity, between mortality and the impulse toward life. Her early works were dark — marked by pain, loss, and struggle. Then one day, she remembered that blood also carries life. And her canvases lit up. Incandescent reds, deep blues, abstract vibrations: hope surfaces in every composition. This turning point gave birth to what she calls her “poetic paintings,” works infused with the breath of the living.
