Artist Statement

Diane’s visual interpretation of the world is informed by patterns and nature. Her artistic vision developed early, during a childhood of hiking and camping in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. There, she encountered an environment rich with patterns: ferns, fir cones, cedar bark, rocks at a river’s edge.

Her mother, an artist, was an influential presence. From her, Diane learned the powers of observation—to notice subtle differences of color and variations of texture in everything from a field of grass to a sky of clouds, to discover beauty in the smallest of spaces and the most mundane of places—and to live with an open heart. Her father was also a creative thinker and she was inspired by his research on medieval art symbolism. The constructs of poetry and math, with their inherent rhythms and unique ability to describe the world, also inform Diane’s visual arts endeavors, as her eye naturally reduces what she sees to its essence: lines, textures, patterns of shape and color. The diversity of her experiences during two years in Kenya as a teenager, along with a year in England, and four years in France after college, further added to the palette of knowledge from which Diane draws inspiration.

Through her lived experience and her passion for creativity, Diane expresses her love of nature, and her feeling for our common humanity, through her art.

Recent Works

Diane’s concern for sustainability motivated her to use salvaged construction materials to create her latest works. They include multimedia pieces and pastel works on paper and on building materials, in which she incorporated lath as a device for screen-printing and wax rubbings. She also documented construction processes through a series of photographs, interpreting the projects through her unique artistic vision. She found beauty everywhere, often in unexpected places—on the inside wall of a dumpster, for example—and noticed the many ways in which construction materials mirrored elements of the natural world.

Exhibitions & Experience

2026 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition

City Gallery

Charleston, SC

2026 Park Circle Gallery

Solo Exhibition (co-occurring show for month of April)

North Charleston, SC

2025 Mt. Pleasant Town Hall Art Exhibition (August-December)

Mt. Pleasant, SC

2024 Redux Art Auction

Charleston, SC

2024 Mt. Pleasant Town Hall Art Exhibition (August-December)

Mt. Pleasant, SC

2024 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition

City Gallery

Charleston, SC

2023 Beyond the Canvas:  A 3D Art Exhibition

Private Home

Charleston, SC

2014–present Construction Art Series (multi-media, incorporating salvaged construction debris)

2014-2017 Construction Photography Series

Mt. Pleasant, SC

2012 Savanna Project for the Children’s Museum of the Lowcountry

Six-foot-tall giraffe installation — designed and fabricated (3/4" birch plywood, acrylic paint)

Charleston, SC

1996 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Exhibition

“The Snake,” multilayered paper cutting

City Gallery

Charleston, SC

1996 All Women’s Art Show

Paper-cutting

Center for Women

Charleston, SC

1995 Cover of Skirt! Magazine

“Self Portrait,” paper-cutting

Charleston, SC

1991–96 Life in Layers Series

Multilayered paper cutting

Chicago, IL and Mt. Pleasant, SC

1985 Hyde Park Art Center Members Exhibit

Sculpture in basswood

Chicago, IL

1981–84 Odile Pichon Clay Studio

Hand-built ceramic pieces

Paris, France