Top 15 % FAV awarded to " A Gray Lady " in the MAY 2010 Bold Brush Competition ( a nationally run competition hosted by Fine Art Studio Online.
Special judges award at the 2010 quickdraw event hosted by the 2010 Forgotten Coast Plein Air Invitational
Scarborough citywide juried Consillium show 1995
Consumer Gas Cash Award
Scarborough Art Guild 1995: Best Oil award
Cape Cod Art Association : Feb 1997 Juror`s Award
Festival of the Arts, North River Arts Society;
Best Marine Paintng Award 2003 and 2004
Festival of the Arts, NRAS , Juried Art Show: May 2000: First Place Oil/ acrylic
Festival of the Arts, NRAS, Juried Art Show: First place Oil / acrylic one other year
North River Arts Society: Numerous Honorable Mentions over the last 5 - 6 years
Cape Cod Arts Association 1999 All New England Juried Show 1999 : First Place, oil / acrylic
Hull Lifesaving Museum< Fall Sea and Sky Show: Best in Show in 2004, honorable mention in 2005
North River Arts Society Calendar competition 2005.. COVER AWARD for "Fog lifting, Stonington"
North River Arts Society 2006 Calendar competition: Finalist
TEACHING:
taught beginner and intermediate oil painting classes at NRAS for several ears. gave up regular teaching in 2004 to concentrate on my own painting exclusively
Attleboro Museum .. weeklong workshop and weekend workshop in 2001 and 2000
numerous art demos and talks about my process in conjunction with various gallery and library shows etc.
SHOWS:
Northeast FineArt and Design (double show) september 2005
South Street Gallery, Hingham (solo show) spring 2005
James Library center for the Arts December 1997 (solo)
Dolphin Gallery, Hingham 2003 (Solo)
Tishman Speyer, Boston 2001 (Solo) and 2003 (Group)
New England Impressions, Paintings from Life 1998
Major group invitational show of New England Plein Air Painters at Attleboro Museum
State Art 2001 (Group)
Arts Around Boston 1998 (regional juried show)
Oil Painters of America Eastern and Southern regional 1997
Essex Art Center third annual juried show
just about every juried show at North River Arts Society between 1996 and 2009:
several invitational group shows in Apalachicola, Florida and Port StJoe, Florida (May 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)
GALLERY RERESENTATION:
Blue Hill Bay Gallery
11 Tenney Hill Drive
PO Box 1660
Blue Hill, Maine
04641
207-374-5773
Impulse
188 Commercial Street
Provincetown,MA,02675
phone: 508-487-2631
(open yearround)
Camden Falls Gallery
10 Public Landing
Camden, Maine, 04843
www.camdenfallsgallery.com
207-470-7027
Harvest Gold Gallery
1082 Main street
po box100
Center Lovell, Maine
04016
207-925-6502
www.harvestgoldgallery.com
When not in the field, Diane works at her studio in Chatham, New Hampshire
Diane is an active member of The North River Arts Society at www.northriverartssociety.com