Garden Invitation 16×12, Acrylic on Linen Complete Information » Labor of Love 14×18, Acrylic on Linen Complete Information » THESE TWO PAINTINGS were created on location for Gardens for the Cure, a benefit home garden tour for breast cancer. I participated in the benefit last year, and was pleased to be invited back again. This year’s garden was vast with unending possibilities. I have just completed them in the studio. On site the sun moved so quickly through this primarily shady garden that I could not precisely nail down the light direction while painting. There was a great amount of green, yet the scenes were punctuated by flowers and a golf course just beyond the yard.
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After years talking to gallery owners, collectors, teaching / conversing with colleages, and working the Web from building / maintaining my Web gallery, blogs for artists and collectors, it’s finally time to talk about and post my work directly! My objective is to share a bit more about myself as a painter, my work as it is created and perhaps historic moments and influences. As I tweak this blog site I’ll be generating things for you all to see, comment on and hopefully appreciate. Diane
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