Canadian Abstract
Artist Diane Lefroy
Diane Lefroy is a Canadian abstract artist and painter
in Vancouver B.C. She works in acrylics and mixed media. You are most
welcome to browse through the online galleries of original abstract works
and to visit her studio gallery in the Main Street area of Vancouver to
view any of the available works in person. You may sign up to receive
email invitations to upcoming shows in the studio gallery and to exhibits
in other Vancouver art galleries. Location and dates will also be posted
on the studio gallery and exhibits
pages.
Born in Saskatoon, Canada, and raised
in Calgary, Alberta, Diane spent her childhood summers in the foothills
of the Rockies. It is a landscape that is deeply rooted in her memory
and a place she visits often.
At seventeen, Diane came to B.C. to attend
the University of British
Columbia in Vancouver. Her formal training and career have been
in education and psychology. She has studied, lived and worked in
Vancouver for more than thirty years.
Diane is entirely self-taught as a painter.
Her inspiration and learning have come from close observation and study
of the work of those artists she is drawn to on an intuitive level.
Both in style and philosophy, the abstract expressionists
of the fifties and sixties have influenced Diane's work. Canadian abstract
painters, such as Jack Shadbolt, Jean-Paul Riopelle, and Gordon Smith;
artists of the New York school, including Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner,
Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Joan Mitchell, have shaped Diane's
view of the world and her approach to making art.
The work of these artists reflects something essential
in herself, the interplay of conscious and unconscious forces, the fusion
of feeling, form, colour and movement, an exuberance for life, and a deep
respect for the mystery of Nature.
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