Artist Information:
Diane Wilkinson
Houston, TX
United States
Member Since: Mar 2007
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Artist Statement:
Relocations develop one's
ability to observe a new
environment, then
discriminately grasp the
essentials needed for rapid
assimilation. For Diane
Wilkinson, as a global nomad,
survival demands that beauty
be uncovered, even where none
is apparent.
Diane explores the outer
limits of our earthly
existence by looking upwards
to the heavens. She captures
the awesome power of clouds
building, swirling and
threatening to unleash their
pent up energies on the frail
human structures clinging to a
thin veneer of land below.
The land is an abstract
footnote to the paintings;
overwhelmed by the size and
scope of the skies. The human
structures, in turn, are
clinging tentatively to the
lower edge of the paintings,
leaving the impression that
they could be sucked up into
the maelstrom that is
developing overhead in the
clouds. The clouds draw our
attention into their dark
centers where raw power and
energy is offset by whimsical
wisps of sunlit vapor away
from the stormy center. An
attempt to capture local color
is merely the examination of
light differences depending on
one's toehold on earth....
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Artist Exhibitions:
View Brazos Locks - 2006
oil on canvas 48 x 60
900 Bagby, Houston, TX
Houston City Annex Building
Lobby...
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Artist Galleries:
Harris Gallery Houston
1100 Bissonnet St
Houston, TX 77005
(713) 522-9116
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Artist Reviews:
Publications
2008 The Great Landscape: The
Next Big Thing, The Sky’s The
Limit, Southwest Art Magazine,
February 2008, p. 110, p. 118,
Illus.
2007 Ann Williams, Skyscapes,
Diane Wilkinson explores the
skies, Experience, Vol. 2,
Issue 3, p. 14, Illus., online
by Jordan Hartt, Skyscapes,
www.centrum.org
2007 ...
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Diane Wilkinson's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Diane Wilkinson's Portfolio. Browse Wilkinson's body of work: Relocations develop one's ability to observe a new environment, then discriminately grasp the essentials needed for rapid assimilation. For Diane Wilkinson, as a global nomad, survival demands that beauty be uncovered, even where none is apparent.
Diane explores the outer limits of our earthly existence by looking upwards to the heavens. She captures the awesome power of clouds building, swirling and threatening to unleash their pent up energies on the frail human structures clinging to a thin veneer of land below.
The land is an abstract footnote to the paintings; overwhelmed by the size and scope of the skies. ... |
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