Diane Scully
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Diane Scully lives and paints in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She finds that CWM allows her to use painting, collage, & printmaking in her artwork.
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After being involved for four decades in the field of art and art education, I have been able to focus more on my professional artistic creation for the past five years. Returning to the practice of painting, I found that the use of oil and cold wax medium allowed me the freedom to move between paint, printmaking, collage, and photography. I take inspiration from physical, emotional, and spiritual reaction from place, time, and location.
My work is abstract since that is how I experience life. We view life in segments, fleeting images and sounds, a simple flash of an impression. I may notice due to color, texture, spatial dimensions, surface, or the dynamics between all of them. My work focuses on my reaction to the visual that I see and it is why place, time and location are instrumental.
I begin intuitively, allowing the painting to evolve and resolve itself through having a dialogue with it. I find the composition and surface to show itself to me over time. At times this conversation can happen quickly if I am open to it. Other times it takes years to become resolved.
Using oil and cold wax allows for surface build up and texture. There is a transparency to the color which is strong yet seductive. The tools are instrumental in my painting process since mark making encourages a individual calligraphic dimension to the textures. The physical act of painting and mark making can be explored due to the addition of added beeswax.
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