Arctic Sun

Arctic Sun Diane Love Mixed media collage 37 x 28.75 inches 2011 About Diane Love:  From her first encounter with crayons at age three, Diane Love has pursued an expansive artistic vision. Her work spans multiple mediums and techniques, from photography and watercolors to oil painting with palette knives and creating innovative collages that incorporate her own photographic fragments onto freshly painted surfaces. In 1971, she opened Diane Love on Madison Avenue, designing fabric flowers, jewelry, decorative objects, and home fragrance. Her artistic sensibility has been captured in two books: "Flowers Are Fabulous For Decorating" (Macmillan, 1975) and "Yes/No Design" (Flammarion/Rizzoli, 1999/2000). Guided by esteemed painter Milet Andrejevic's philosophy to "trust your instinct" and "put down what you see," Love continuously experiments with new techniques from Ikebana to sumi ink painting—always exploring fresh artistic expressions and incorporating natural elements like wood grain into her distinctive visual language.