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Diana Cote has been working as a professional artist since receiving her BFA in 1982. After exploring several media including traditional oil paint, her most recent interest and passion lies with paintstiks, an oil paint that has been formulated into sticks. This media has allowed her a most unique expression of any material she has worked with so far. “Because paintstiks are so similar to crayons, they have inspired me to scribble much like a child does – unrestricted, uninhibited. My technique of layering these ‘scribbly lines’ weaves the color into a textural tapestry. With this application, I have created my own stylized hybrid of Impressionism.” In 1990, Gloria Russell an art critic critiqued Cote and agreed. She wrote that Diana Cote is “a skilled adherent of impressionism – style handling and content. Using oil stick as her medium, Cote builds luscious garden scenes, interiors, and landscapes in a bright palette. She concentrates on light effects, suggests atmosphere and breezes, just like her 19th century antecedents. Particularly discerning in her observation of sunlight she is inventive in her description, registering its rays from uncommon angles…”

Cote’s work has been shown nationally for two decades with a diverse following of both private collectors and commissions from corporations throughout the Connecticut River Valley. In January of 2002 Cote was the WGBY/57 art auction featured artist. Besides area galleries, her work has been exhibited in Chicago, Boston, Kansas City and Bermuda. She was also featured in the television series, “By Their Own Hands,” and more recently, an artist’s biographical television series “Eye On Art.” Diana is on a quest in every work of art that she creates. In capturing that special quality of light, which is what brings each of her compositions to life, you may think that you can step right into the image, or perhaps you already have.

Diana Lyn Cote
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White Adirondack Chairs I	White Adirondack Chairs II	Elizabeth Park Arches	Elizabeth Park Bench
Olive Grove With Poppies	Pair of Onions	Ramsdell Porch	Red Bridge
Les Jardines Tuileries	Bowl of Yellow Tulips	Oxbow	Waterlilly Pond (Series 4)
Red Barn	Gate at Mount Holyoke College	Blue Sky Landscape	Summer Landscape
The Dingy	Forest Park Red Bridge	Green Rocker Series III	Green Rocker Series I
Mara in the Grotto	Kathryn	Portait of Artist Boudreaux	Peach Rose - Macro Series
Purple Petunia - Macro Series	Red Habiscus - Macro Series	Kent Falls	Gazebo with Day Lillies
The Kiss	Pond with Purple Irises	Millbrook Series	Wildflowers
The Gorgons of Central Park	Beyond the Barnyard	Second Winds	Greeting the Sun
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Bio
Diana Cote has been working as a professional artist since receiving her BFA in 1982. After exploring several media including traditional oil paint, her most recent interest and passion lies with paintstiks, an oil paint that has been formulated into sticks. This media has allowed her a most unique expression of any material she has worked with so far. “Because paintstiks are so similar to crayons, they have inspired me to scribble much like a child does – unrestricted, uninhibited. My technique of layering these ‘scribbly lines’ weaves the color into a textural tapestry. With this application, I have created my own stylized hybrid of Impressionism.” In 1990, Gloria Russell an art critic critiqued Cote and agreed. She wrote that Diana Cote is “a skilled adherent of impressionism – style handling and content. Using oil stick as her medium, Cote builds luscious garden scenes, interiors, and landscapes in a bright palette. She concentrates on light effects, suggests atmosphere and breezes, just like her 19th century antecedents. Particularly discerning in her observation of sunlight she is inventive in her description, registering its rays from uncommon angles…” Cote’s work has been shown nationally for two decades with a diverse following of both private collectors and commissions from corporations throughout the Connecticut River Valley. In January of 2002 Cote was the WGBY/57 art auction featured artist. Besides area galleries, her work has been exhibited in Chicago, Boston, Kansas City and Bermuda. She was also featured in the television series, “By Their Own Hands,” and more recently, an artist’s biographical television series “Eye On Art.” Diana is on a quest in every work of art that she creates. In capturing that special quality of light, which is what brings each of her compositions to life, you may think that you can step right into the image, or perhaps you already have.
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