Diane Wile-Brumm

Diane was born in Halifax, raised in Ancaster, Ontario, and lived and worked in the Halifax area from 1969 to 2006. She is a visual artist and former educator who is happy to now be living in Lunenburg County, where her family roots on both sides go back to the 1700s, and where she can devote her time to art-making, having begun painting seriously in 2000. (Click to view Diane's Gallery).

She holds a BA from Waterloo Lutheran University, a BEd from Dalhousie, an MA from St. Mary's, and in 1981 completed the Foundations program at NSCAD. She has completed evening courses and week-long workshops with artists including Nancy Edell, Nancy Stevens, Alice Reed, Jean Hancock, Kay Stanfield, Brian Atyeo and Charles Reid.

The stimulus for much of Diane's work comes from her preoccupations with the natural world, social history and the passage of time. In her recent paintings the viewer will see tangible links to our collective past with an implied counterbalance to the high tech, drive-by aspects of modern living.

She works mainly in watercolour, beginning with a detailed drawing, then letting the paint find its way, allowing pencil marks and surprises created by the medium to become increasingly significant aspects of the finished piece.

Exhibitions
2003 Recent Paintings, Cole Harbour Library, Dartmouth, NS
2005 Recent Paintings, Woodlawn Library, Dartmouth, NS, with Norene Smiley
2005 “Double Talk”, Craig Gallery, Dartmouth, NS, with Norene Smiley
2008 “From Here”, Craig Gallery, Dartmouth, NS, with Shannon Bell and Norene Smiley

Selected Group Exhibitions
2000 - 2006 December and June exhibitions - Craig Gallery,
Dartmouth, NS; Dartmouth Visual Arts Society
2005 Cityscapes, Art Sales and Rental Gallery, Halifax, NS
2006 Contemporary Art Society of Nova Scotia: Juried Show - Nova Scotia Archives, Halifax, NS
2006 Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour: Associates' Juried Show
Nova Scotia Archives, Halifax, NS
2008 VANS Regional Exhibition, Peer Gallery, Lunenburg, NS
2008 The Art of the Garden, MOXIE, Bridgewater, NS

Galleries
MacDonald House Gallery, Lawrencetown Beach (2001 -2006)
Art Sales and Rental Society Gallery, Halifax, NS
Peer Gallery, Lunenburg, NS

Contact
Email Diane
VANS profile
At home: By the Garden Studio, Please call first. (902) 530-5597