Diane Clement: The Artist

 

Self taught, Diane simply pours all of her paint, time,
"blood, sweat, and tears," and passion into her art.

"The Perfect Artist -- we all have a vision or an image of one: a young skinny guy with messy hair and a “don’t give a shit” attitude. And paint everywhere! To paint for the sake of painting. To paint, not with an end or goal, but with no end in sight.

"My work has been described as 'Freedom Made Visible' and I like that. I throw paint way past the edges of the canvas or I scrape paint off the canvas right onto the floor or ground, not thinking, of course, about the mess, or hardly seeing the image until it appears. I’m constantly challenging myself to paint larger or smaller, or with more texture, or using a color I’ve never used, or a subject matter I’ve never before tried to interpret.

"I pursue my passions with this chaotic method of painting. I start each piece with an idea for feel and color and let it take on the life it does. Throwing paint onto the canvas feels so incredible! Scraping paint into blocks and blends of color creates the feeling of reflections on water or cirrus clouds in the sky. The most amazing things appear on the canvas. I finish when it feels right. To paint for the sake of painting.

"I was asked if I ever run out of ideas. Quite the opposite! I have so many ideas from images I see every day, that a canvas becomes a work of bits of images that feel a certain way to me. They get a little mixed up but overall the finished art piece feels good or right, or mixed up, yet balanced somehow."

 

Read more about Diane Clement, as written in the Richmond Times-Dispatch "Inspiring Spaces" magazine in August, 2007. Click here to see a PDF.

 

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