Diane H Waller is our featured artist for November, and her work will be on display at the studio throughout the month. There will be a reception on November 14th from 4-6 pm--save the date!
Artist's Statement
The visuals that inspire me most are the human figure and nature in its abundance. Living in New York City provides a constantly changing view of how people function mostly without nature. Always seeing whimsy and humor in everyday life gives me joy.
The focus of this exhibit is three fold.
In the pottery and small works in paint, the figure and the whimsy are obviously very present. Clearly, this was fun to do.
In some of the larger pottery pieces and a few paintings, Nature shines through in many colors shapes and forms, which is also quite whimsical at times.
Most of the cityscape paintings were done on the site and are my impressions of what was in front of me. I don’t always paint realistically, but everything is certainly recognizable. Here again, is the whimsy. Who would ever think that the New York MetLife building was purple or the Lackawanna Railroad Terminal, magenta? That’s how I see them.
I am never sure what is going to emerge from the clay or what will happen on the canvas, making my creative life a grand adventure. I say, pottery grounds me and painting drives me. They overlap or cross-pollinate. There is a singular inspiration for both.
