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Both Diane Hoff-Rome and Gordon Dobbie exhibit in the USA and Europe. Their paintings are found in private and corporate collections on both sides of the 'Pond'. The Skye Workshop is featured in a full color article published by American Artist's Watercolor Magazine.

Artist Statement and brief biography of artists Diane Hoff-Rome and Gordon B. Dobbie.

Both their individual and collaborative paintings express the painting language of two artists who take risks from the heart and mind: "Our vision is continually transformed through our painting!". Their mediums include acrylics, watercolor, pastels, collage and mixed media.

Born in Scotland, Gordon came to Massachusetts as a young boy and has painted since he was in college (Gordon also carves in wood and creates metal sculpture). A graduate of Tufts University with a BSME, his painting is influenced by contemporary musicians such as Dylan, Lennon, Young, Mayall, Mitchell and Van Morrison and painters Diebenkorn, Avery, Van Gogh, Monet and Rothko.

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 constructs assemblages, is an avid nature photographer and also writes poetry and short stories. 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.

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.