A brief bio.
Diane, a native of Massachusetts, also enjoys a home on the Isle of Skye,
Scotland. Brought up in a family of artists, writers and musicians,
she has been immersed in the arts since childhood. An alumna of
Bennington College and Boston University's School of Fine Arts, she
holds a BFA and MFA in painting with a minor in creative
writing. Diane also studied Creative Expression through Art at the Jung Institute in Boston, MA.
She studied painting with
the late Kenneth Callahan and Philip Guston; and admires O'Keefe, Frankenthaler, Hartung, Rembrandt, Matisse, Monet,
Deibenkorn, Hockney, and Ansel Adams; writers Sorley Maclean, Dylan
Thomas, W.B.Yeats and Anna Akhmatova. Folk, blues, classical music
and opera also inspire Diane's work. The Scottish Colourists, Fauvists, and American West Coast
& Southwest painters also influence Diane's process.
French journalist Chantal Tochou wrote "Artists with Diane...
express themselves freely with color which sings with love...".
Articles about An Artist's Life™ have
also appeared in American Artist's Watercolor Magazine (7 pages,
full colour), Victoria Magazine, US Airways Magazine, the Boston
Globe, and a syndicated article in over 50 publications including
the San Francisco Chronicle and the Washington
Post. |