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Patricia Diemand Biography | Portfolio
continued to study at the Art League School in Alexandria, VA. She also interned in book design at Yale University Press and was a member of two art groups: the Western New York Artists' Group in Buffalo, NY and the WA Project for the Arts/Corcoran in Washington, DC. Patricia has been in many various exhibitions since 1997. Some of these include the Artful Gifts Exhibition in NY, Annual Valentine Exhibits, Member Shows in NY and Cumberland Valley Artists Exhibition in Hagerstown, MD. She won an Honorable Mention at the 30th Annual Open Juried Exhibit of York Art Association. Also, from 2001-2004 her work was represented in J. Cooper Gallery in Shepherdstown, WV. Artist's Statement: "I love color and use a lot of it in my paintings to create a mood, contrast and interest, and to make a personal statement about the joy of life. The composition of a piece comes from initial mental images usually worked out to some degree in my head before I approach the canvas. I prefer to work directly on canvas doing few preliminary sketches. For me, the spontaneity and freshness of that first image is so important and oftentimes lost when one labors over drawings on paper. The subject matter of many of my paintings is food still life and photo-based landscapes while other works develop from subconscious impressions of things seen. In contrast to painting, I also work in pastel, pencil and pen and ink. I look at the world in terms of pictorial images. It is an endless collection of subjects just waiting to be interpreted." |
