I love to paint, sometimes feel driven to it.  There is nothing to match the ‘intuneness’ with myself I feel when a painting is flowing.  For me it is a way of truly being present in the moment as often, only a child can.  It is my peace.  

My interests, artistic and otherwise, lie in nature and human nature.  My paintings tend toward a more simplistic or stylized representation.  I explore stark color contrasts and the simple beauty in nature, not so simple in the real world.  I enjoy portraiture, figure studies in non-traditional techniques and media, collage work and am just venturing abstract expression.  Blues and bright colors are prominent but not guaranteed.  My materials may include cloth, latex paint, digital photography, recycled materials, chalk, ink, pastels, , various gel mediums, printed-media collage, watercolors, leaves, cut paper, linoleum, other discarded objects and most often, acrylic paints.

Honestly, I paint just to paint.  If I had to expand on that intention, it would be to become fluent in the portrayal and extraction of human emotion through color, composition and technique.

Diane Korf

Edmonds, Washington

June 2009

 

Biographical Information

Born in 1965, Diane Korf grew up in the small town of Valley City, North Dakota.  She moved to Aberdeen South Dakota in 1984 for college and to Sand Point, Alaska in 1986 to work in a cannery.  A year she arrived in the Seattle area, sampling many neighborhoods including Lake Forest Park, downtown, Bellevue, Mountlake Terrace, Eastlake, Wallingford, Issaquah and Bothell prior to landing in Edmonds in 2003.

Diane earned her BA in Humanities and Social Sciences (Ethnicity, Gender and Class) from the University of Washington in March of 2007.  She was fortunate enough to spend a couple of quarters in Royal Alley-Barnes’ painting class at SCCC, though is primarily a self taught artist.  She considers herself “A student of humanity by trade, an artist for personal fulfillment.”