By permission of the artist, The Cyber Art Show is pleased to feature the first of two 12-piece exhibitions of works by American landscape painter Diane Artz Furlong (born 1950 in Virginia, USA).

Diane works from her home studio and gallery in Oranda, near Strasburg, Virginia. A self-taught artist, she is inspired by the landscape of the Shenandoah Valley and the Blue Ridge mountains. Expressing her love for the countryside in her art, Diane's sense of place is shown through her feeling for a setting rather than an exact rendering of a scene. Occasionally a piece will include a dilapidated farm building or fencerow or country road but most often her work is devoid of humankind.

 

She became interested in photography by driving around the area with a small digital camera gathering images to use as reference material for her paintings and has shown her photographs locally as well as on social media.

 

In addition to her pastel art and photography, Diane has been inspired to create an art doll series, Wise Woman Dolls©, as an expression of those things she feels most passionate about.

 

Diane's art is in collections here and abroad and has won many awards. She gives one-on-one classes in pastel landscape painting and contributed two landscape demonstrations to the recently published art instruction book, Creative Freedom by Maggie Price.