User:Diane Pfister

Diane Pfister

For the past 25 years, Diane Pfister has lived and worked in New York, London, and most recently in Connecticut. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, she studied Fine Arts at Miami University, Ohio, and post-graduate photographic work at The Parsons School of Design in New York. After moving to London, she studied printmaking during a fellowship at the Slade School of Art and Fine Art post-graduate work at St Martin’s School of Art.

She has worked commercially in various media including collage, photography, and sculpture for illustration before committing herself to painting in 1995. Her work in oils focuses on raw emotions played out in highly energetic, vibrant and contemporary colors often balanced with a textured Rembrandt-style love for rich browns and neutrals. References to the body, dress, and other forms connect to a substructure of thought and creative expression as the Jungian concept of root connects us all.

Her paintings have been acquired by private and corporate collections in the United States, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Australia. For more information go to [www.pfister.co.uk].

In 2009, she collaborated with writer Tim Lucas on a screenplay on the life of ISHI, a northwest native American who was the last of his tribe and acclimated to the white man's world during the early twentieth century.

Lecturer Bath College of Art and Design (1990-1995) Co-Head of Third Year Degree Programme Chelsea College of Art, London (1993-1994) Westminster College, London (1992-1996) TASIS international school, Windsor UK & Lugano, Switzerland (1985-1990)

Education Post Graduate Diploma in Art, St Martins College of Art and Design, 1995 Printmaking Fellowship Faculty Grant Award, Slade College of Art (1980-1981) Parsons School of Design, New York, Graduate Work 1979-1980 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Miami University, Ohio, USA, 1977 Charlotte Schmidlapp Honor Scholarship, Full Undergraduate Tuition, Miami University, Ohio (1973-1977)

Exhibitions Thornbury Castle, Thornbury, Glos (1996) Collyer Bristow Gallery, London (1997) Chelsea & Westiminster Hospital, London (2003) Ashursts Gallery, London (2004) Westbourne Studios, London (2005) Duncan Campbell Gallery, London (2006) The Felix, Cambridge (2007) Good News Gallery, Woodbury, Connecticut (2008)