Diana Dean

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biography

Diana began painting at the age of fourteen, and attended the Bath Academy of Art in Corsham, England, from where she graduated with a Distinction in Sculpture in 1964 and began her life as a professional artist. In 1982, Dean developed her vision amongst the natural beauty of the West Coast of British Columbia where she lives and continues "creating a powerful body of work that is epic in subject matter, composition, scale and historical parallels".

Diana has created an incredible body of work, exhibits regularly, been reviewed extensively and her work can be found in many important public, corporate and private collections. visit her website for a full accounting. She is truly a National treasure.

where to see or read more

shows: Contact the artist below to make an appointment for a studio visit.

web:  www.dianadean.com the artist's website            
            www.facebook.com/pages/Diana-Dean/14691550169 Studio Facebook page
            www.surrey.ca/files/Dean1.pdf excellent essay from the Surrey Art Museum
            www.saltspringnews.com/index.php for an excellent review of the artists' work

press:   a full and extensive listing can be found here on the artists website.
                2009 The Florence Biennalle 7th Edition. (catalogue)                
                2003 West Coast Women Resource Guide - Featured Page 98
                2000 Canadian Woman Studies - York University Publication - Spring

contact the artist

address: 135 Northview Place, SSI
email: info@dianadean.com

artist statement

"My painting is a journey of bringing together my personal experience of the world, inner and outer, with the magic of painting materials and their properties of colour and consistency reflecting the marriage of matter and inspiration.

My work is about relationship:- of my inner nature to the world, of man and woman, of mother and child, of wind and sky, of colour and brush. Relationship of geometric and organic, of sharp line and curve. The relationship of a look to the focus of the story.
The relationship of opposites, dark and light, near and far, the mythical in the everyday, all is in relationship.
My search is to find the essence of my inner vision, to be with it as I paint - to be totally open and connected."

Diana Dean - painter and sculptor







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