"While growing up in the Northwest I spent much time at Mt. Hood and the Oregon coast admiring the beauty of a broad landscape or a tiny clam in the sand. I became a teacher and used the outdoors as motivation in my teaching. Eventually I began sketching from our sailboat as we traveled out of San Francisco Bay to Canada and then south to Mexico."

"My love for nature and the outdoors was my inspiration. After filling many sketchbooks with drawings of various harbors and sea life where we anchored, I began to paint. This quickly became a passion for me."

"Among the artists' work whom I admire are Homer, Sargent and Thiebaud. Over the past eleven years my work has been shown in Oregon and California and is represented in private collections nationally."

Publishers note:

Diane's favorite medium is Water Color. She likes to keep her work small, rarely painting on substrates any larger than 14" x 17". Controlling the flow of color is paramount. Working smaller allows predictable results, close evaluations, and quick responses.

Diane is always in search of visual messages. Her ability to see the message in a subject is unique. She captures the essence of a subject with amazing strokes of color and dynamic subtlety of hue. Her ability to appreciate a large array of subjects and to see the infinite range of reflected light, then interpret and transfer that to watercolor on paper is uncanny.