At a very young age I found joy in drawing and painting.  Those around me realized my talents and encouraged me.  I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the art field.  I experimented in every media of painting, drawing, sculpture, etc… and found watercolor to be my medium of choice.

I immediately fell in love with the transparency of paint on paper and it became a natural process for me.

I am very excited about my recent series “Sticks and Stones.”  The natural elements depicted in my pieces have a way of bringing the outdoors in.

Dianne graduated with an associate degree in Art from Ricks College (BYU Idaho.)  She was influenced by many great artists including, Leon Parsons, Arlo Coles and Matthew Geddes.

Dianne has been a self employed artist for the past 20 years.  Fifteen of those years were spent in Afton, Wyoming where she had the opportunity to show and sell her work in Jackson Hole.

About five years ago Dianne moved to Utah where she is currently a member of the Utah Watercolor Society. She has had paintings selected into the last three of their juried shows.  She won an award of merit in the fall open show for her painting “Sunburst.”

She has also won many other local and national awards, including the Wind Rivers Valley Arts Guild Annual National Art Exhibit:  Bird Art Award for her painting “By the Water’s Edge,” and the Still Life Painting Award for her painting entitled “Pumpkins.”

Dianne currently has a painting in the Utah Arts Council Traveling Exhibit, “Cannonball off Cape Cod” Which they will have until June 2008.

You can find Dianne’s work at Juniper Sky Fine Arts Gallery @ Coyote Gulch Art Village in Kayenta, Utah.  And also in the Palmers Gallery, Trolley Square, SLC, Utah.