| Diana B A Dean |
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Diana Dean
Resident Salt Spring Island oil painter and sculptor Diana Dean is considered to be one of Canada's foremost artists.
Born in 1942, from English parents, in the dry, spacious landscape of Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, living there for eight years, then moving to South Africa for two years. At the age of ten Diana and her family left Africa and returned to England.
This stark contrast in scenery and lifestyle has had a lasting influence on her life and work.
Diana began painting at the age of fourteen, and attended the Bath Academy of Art in Corsham, England, from where she graduated with a distinction in Sculpture in 1964 and commenced her life as a professional artist while raising a family of her own.
In 1982, Dean found her real vision in the natural beauty of the West Coast of British Columbia, Canada, where she has produced a large collection of sculpture and paintings many of which sit in some of the finest collections ranging from Norway to Great Britain, Canada and the United States.
Dean's canvases are often richly allegorical or mythic, open to interpretation. Her work touches deeply on the spiritual, emphasizing the contrast between light and dark but also allowing for vast amounts of colour. The subject matter is timeless in that it simultaneously embraces the past, present and future.
According to Dean, "Painting is a way that I can experience total freedom from gender, from body, from barriers. To push forward into the unknown, making further connections with Nature; the freedom to create new forms. What other medium can do this?"
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"My painting is a journey of bringing together my personal experience of
the world, inner and outer, with the magic of painting materials and their
properties of colour and consistency reflecting the marriage of matter and
inspiration."
My work is about relationship: of my inner nature to the world, of man
and woman, of mother and child, of wind and sky, of colour and brush.
Relationship of geometric and organic, of sharp line and curve.
The relationship of a look to the focus of the story.
The relationship of opposites, dark and light, near and far, the mythical
in the everyday, all is in relationship.
My search is to find the essence of my inner vision, to be with it as I
paint - to be totally open and connected."
Diana B.A. Dean. 2007.
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The Drawing Lesson
2006 oil on canvas 92 x 92 cm. |
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The "Drawing Lesson" is a painting concerned with the passage of life and the passing on of knowledge learned in the process.
The woman is passing on her knowledge of drawing and the intricate study of nature. The still life put out for the young girl to draw
consists of figs, symbol of vitality and creativity, artichokes, symbol of fertility, the lily, symbolizing life and death, and the dying sunflower, showing death with renewal through the seeds.
The light falls onto the table and the young girl.
Behind her on the wall is a painting containing the image of an ancient Greek temple
representing knowledge passed down through the ages.
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Your Face
1993 oil on canvas 208 x 145 cm. |
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Stephen Glanville's face. |
Fernwood Dock
2007 oil on canvas 92 x 92 cm. |
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Follow me. |
The Serving Woman
2000 - 2007 repainted oil on canvas 92 x 92 cm. |
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The Serving Woman |
The Fisherman
1995 oil on canvas 92 x 62 cm. |
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He just appeared. |
The Passage
2005 - repainted oil on canvas 137 x 137 cm. |
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One of my adventures through life. |
Weighing Eggs
2001-2006 re-painted oil on canvas on board 80 x 80 cm. |
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An old tradition before baking. |
The Birth
1986 - 2004 oil on canvas 54 x 48 ins. |
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Grandmother
2001 oil on canvas 43 x 43 |
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Sons and Daughters
1993 oil on canvas 78 x 28 ins. |
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Oscar
2006 oil on canvas 48" x 36" |
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Turning the Tables
2007 oil on canvas 54" x 48" |
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Woman Pushing Rock up Hill
1986 oil on canvas 66" x 48" |
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Departure of the Prodigal Son
1991 oil on canvas 137 x 137 cm. |
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Homage to Rembrandt van Rijn |
Pender Street
1982 oil on canvas 60 x 48 in |
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A Vancouver street scene. |
Dante's Descent
1995 oil on canvas 81 x 51 ins. |
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Release
1979 oil on canvas 60 x 48 in |
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Evening by the Rocks
2006 oil on canvas 36 x 36 in |
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Mother and Child
2007 oil on canvas 60 x 36 in |
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The Dancers
2008 oil on canvas 40 x 30 ins. |
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| 教育程度与个人自传 |
DIANA DEAN.
Born 1942
Rhodesia.
Citizenship: Canadian/British
Education:
Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, England.
Diploma in Art & Education.
Distinction in Sculpture. 1960 - 1964
EXHIBITIONS:
SOLO CANADA ~*~ ~*~
2007 Easter Show. B.C. Canada.
2007 ArtSpring - B.C. Canada.
2006 Easter Show. B.C Canada.
2003 The Loch Gallery(formerly Nancy Poole's Studio) Toronto.
2002 Nanaimo Public Art Gallery Nanaimo
2001 Winchester Galleries Victoria
2000 Artemisia Gallery Salt Spring Is.
1999 "Brush with Romance" Island Arts Centre Salt Spring Is.
1978-2000 TWENTY TWO solo exhibits. Nancy Poole's Studio Toronto
1994 Winchester Galleries Victoria
1991 Vortex Gallery Salt Spring Is.
1977 Studio Exhibit Ottawa
1976 Studio Exhibit Ottawa
SOLO ENGLAND ~*~ ~*~
1966 Sculpture Exhibition
Assoc. of International Artists' Gallery London
GROUP CANADA ~*~ ~*~
2007 "Independent Views"
The Loch Gallery June 16-30
2007 International Art Fair.
2007 The Loch Gallery Toronto.
May 19th - May 31st
2006 International Art Fair Toronto with Loch Gallery.
2006 Interiors: Fantasy-Illusion-Reality The Loch Gallery Toronto
2004 Sooke Fine Art Show Sooke B.C. (catalogue) (juried)
2004 Pendulum Gallery Vancouver B.C.
2004 Parallel to Bateman ArtSpring S.S.I. B.C. (Juried)
2004 Pieces of Eight ArtSpring S.S.I. B.C. (Juried)
2003 Campbell River Public Gallery British Columbia
2001 Richmond Public Gallery Vancouver
2001 B.C. Festival of the Arts (catalogue) Fort St. John
2001 Nancy Poole's Studio Toronto
2000 Portrait Show - Nancy Poole's Toronto
1996 "Symbolism" - Nancy Poole's Studio Toronto
1996 Winchester Galleries Victoria
1996 "Eros '96" British Columbia
1994-1995 "Hidden Values" Ont. Corp. Collect McMichael Canadian Art Collection Ontario
1994 Wilfred Laurier University Art G. Ontario
1994 "The Noble Gesture" figurative works from the Dupont Collection. Art Gallery of Mississauga Ontario
1994 B.C. Festival of the Arts (catalogue) Campbell River
1990 "Endeavour '90 Invitational Vancouver Art Gallery Vancouver
1987 "Personal Vision in Landscape" Cambridge Public Gal. (catalogue) Ontario
1987 "Canadian Genre" Memorial University Gallery, (catalogue) St. Johns.
Newfoundland
1983 "Two Person Show" (catalogue) Surrey Art Gallery B.C. Vancouver
1981 "Works on Paper" (catalogue) London Regional Gallery Ontario
1978 York Gallery Ontario
GROUP ENGLAND ~*~ ~*~
1973 "Paintings and Sculpture" Lancaster University Lancaster
1973 "Arts Spectrum North" juried travelling show
Arts Council of Britain England
1971 "Mid-Pennine National Sculpture Exhibition (catalogue)juried travelling show England
1965 Association of International Artists Group Sculpture Show London
1961 "Midlands 21" Group Show Nottingham
AWARDS ~*~ ~*~
1996 Juror's Choice Images & Objects X1V B.C. Canada
1994 Juror's Choice Images & Objects X11 B.C. Canada
1971 Purchase Prize, Mid-Pennine National Sculpture Exhibition England
1970 Sculpture Commission for the Castleford Civic Centre England
1965 First Prize, Association of International Artists Group Sculpture Show London
COLLECTIONS ~*~ ~*~
Confederation Centre Museum and Art Gallery P.E.I.
Canadian Paraplegic Association
Canada Council Art Bank
Texaco Canada Inc. Collection
Northern Arts Association (British Arts Council)
Teleglobe Canada Collection
Glaxo Canada Inc. Collection
DuPont Canada Inc. Collection
Norcen Corporate Collection
Royal Bank of Canada Corporate Collection
Surrey Public Art Gallery B.C.
Mount Allison University N.S.
Lancaster University, England
Collection Bram Garber
The Blackburn Group
Connor Clark and Co. Ltd.
Borden & Elliot.
* This is a partial list of Corporate Collections. Private collections are not included.
PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS ~*~ ~*~
2006 The Best of the Canadian Contemporaries.
2003 West Coast Women Resource Guide.
2002 Arts Review by Felicity Davies MO Magazine. Nanaimo.
2002 Go Magazine CH TV Victoria B.C.
2001 Surrey Public Art Gallery - Essay for Catalogue
2000 Canadian Woman Studies - York University Publication - Spring
1999 Arts Review re: "Brush with Romance" by Vaughn Fulford
1996 Business Quarterly Magazine - Cover Art
1995 Artword - Toronto - Review
1994 Fire Water - Poetry Book - Ekstasis Editions - Cover Art
1994 Images and Objects X11. Contemporary B.C. Artists
1993 Arts Magazine - Victoria Times Colonist. Oct. 31
1992 The Carmanah Book. B.C.
1992 Essays on Canadian Writing - Cover Art
1992-2003 Who's Who of Canada
1991 Globe and Mail - Art About - Review by Kate Taylor Feb. 22
1986 Enroute Canada - Air Canada Publication - September
1984 Canadian Medical Association Journal - Cover Art - November
1982 Toronto Star - Arts Review by Lisa Balfour Bowen May 29
1979 Globe and Mail - Arts Review by James Purdie May 12
1978 Ottawa Journal - Arts Review by Donna Isaac-Gelfand June 17
Current Prices for Diana's paintings range from $8,000 - $25,000.
All pieces are original oil paintings.
Represented by:
The Loch Gallery: Toronto -Winnipeg - Calgary, Canada.
Galerie Crescent Contemporain
Montreal, Canada.
www.dianadean.com
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Galerie Crescent Contemporaine
2080 Rue Crescent
Montreal, Quebec. Canada.
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