Diana Grant
Diana was born in Dallas, Texas to a military family. Grow- ing up she traveled extensively and has lived in Texas, Okla- homa, California, Washington, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mary- land and Oregon. Her family camped across the US, visiting many National Parks and Monuments. She spent many hours gazing at landscapes.
As a child, she loved to draw and was encouraged by her teachers to attend the children’s art program at the Met- ropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
From 1971-1976 she worked in Ceramics. She enjoyed both hand building and throwing on the wheel. She took college level classes for two years while she attained her associate of science degree in Bend, Oregon.
In 1976 she started at the Architecture Program at the University of Washington, which includ- ed drawing lessons. Her instructor for line drawing was Philip Thiel. She also studied black and white photography with Christian Straub which included darkroom processing.
Her focus in Architecture was on Environmental Design and after graduation worked in Solar Architecture, then transitioned to Energy Conservation at Seattle City Light, where she worked for 25 years. During this career, she took night classes in Scientific Illustration from Margaret Davidson and Figure Painting from Katy Stone at the University of Washington. She explored Water Color through classes at the Experimental College.
After discovering the Kirkland Arts Center she studied there from 2008 - 2014 with Michael Ot- terson (abstracts), Doug Parry (still life), Jamie Breitenbach (landscapes) and Che Lopez (por- traits). She co-facilitated and practiced figure drawing for two years from 2012 - 2014.
From 2014 - 2016 she took classes at Gage with Charles Emerson (abstract and still life) and Julia Ricketts (abstract) and Jim Phalen (portrait) and Mitch Albala (landscape).
In 2015 she started Plein Air landscape painting with the Evergreen Association of Fine Arts and continues today.
She is currently focused on working in her studio to develop her skills through exploring new ideas in abstracts and landscapes.
She has shown her work extensively and currently shows work at the ryan james Fine Arts and the Book Tree in Kirkland, the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, and the Overlake Healing Arts Program in Bellevue.
As a child, she loved to draw and was encouraged by her teachers to attend the children’s art program at the Met- ropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
From 1971-1976 she worked in Ceramics. She enjoyed both hand building and throwing on the wheel. She took college level classes for two years while she attained her associate of science degree in Bend, Oregon.
In 1976 she started at the Architecture Program at the University of Washington, which includ- ed drawing lessons. Her instructor for line drawing was Philip Thiel. She also studied black and white photography with Christian Straub which included darkroom processing.
Her focus in Architecture was on Environmental Design and after graduation worked in Solar Architecture, then transitioned to Energy Conservation at Seattle City Light, where she worked for 25 years. During this career, she took night classes in Scientific Illustration from Margaret Davidson and Figure Painting from Katy Stone at the University of Washington. She explored Water Color through classes at the Experimental College.
After discovering the Kirkland Arts Center she studied there from 2008 - 2014 with Michael Ot- terson (abstracts), Doug Parry (still life), Jamie Breitenbach (landscapes) and Che Lopez (por- traits). She co-facilitated and practiced figure drawing for two years from 2012 - 2014.
From 2014 - 2016 she took classes at Gage with Charles Emerson (abstract and still life) and Julia Ricketts (abstract) and Jim Phalen (portrait) and Mitch Albala (landscape).
In 2015 she started Plein Air landscape painting with the Evergreen Association of Fine Arts and continues today.
She is currently focused on working in her studio to develop her skills through exploring new ideas in abstracts and landscapes.
She has shown her work extensively and currently shows work at the ryan james Fine Arts and the Book Tree in Kirkland, the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, and the Overlake Healing Arts Program in Bellevue.
Diana Grant CV