Diane LaMere Fine Art
You can find Diane painting outdoors in all kinds of weather for she enjoys the beauty each of the seasons has to offer. She prefers to work directly from Mother Nature saying “It’s easier to capture the feeling of cold while standing in the snow; or the humidity of a sultry August day while the flies are buzzing and sweat is dripping down one’s back.” In the tradition of the impressionists, she strives to capture the fleeting light with expressive, painterly brushstrokes. To do that, she needs to paint quickly and decisively before the light changes and the shadows move. Her indoor studio work is done from field studies and memory. She rarely, if ever, works from photographs.
Diane credits a John Singer Sargent exhibit in Chicago with opening her eyes to the excitement of paint. Another artist to have an impact on her is Montana artist, Clyde Aspevig, with his vast and beautiful landscapes. She received classical training in Saint Paul, Minnesota from talented plein-air painter, Joseph Paquet.
In addition to painting in her home state of Minnesota, she has put brush to canvas in Alaska, Colorado, Florida, France, Hawaii, Mexico, Montana and South Dakota. She exhibits regularly in her NE Minneapolis studio in the historic Northrup King Building at 1500 Jackson Street NE, Minneapolis MN 55413. Go to www.NorthrupKingBuilding.com for directions and further information about exhibits and events.
Welcome to the world as seen through diane’s eyes
I prefer to work directly from Mother Nature. It’s easier to capture the feeling of cold while standing in the snow or the humidity of a sultry August day while sweat is dripping down one’s back.
I credit a John Singer Sargent exhibit in Chicago with opening my eyes to the excitement of paint. Another artist to have an impact on me is Montana artist, Clyde Aspevig, with his vast and beautiful landscapes. I trained in Saint Paul, Minnesota with talented plein-air painter, Joseph Paquet, who was a student of painter, John Phillip Osborne. Osborne studied with Arthur Maynard who was a student of renouned artist Frank Vincent DuMond.
I credit a John Singer Sargent exhibit in Chicago with opening my eyes to the excitement of paint. Another artist to have an impact on me is Montana artist, Clyde Aspevig, with his vast and beautiful landscapes. I trained in Saint Paul, Minnesota with talented plein-air painter, Joseph Paquet, who was a student of painter, John Phillip Osborne. Osborne studied with Arthur Maynard who was a student of renouned artist Frank Vincent DuMond.
