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Diana Wunderle
Bothell WA
Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1959, Diana Wunderle was one of four children of the second generation in a French and German immigrant heritage. she suffered from epilepsy in childhood. In early 1972, she traveled to New Orleans, Louisiana, where she was taken under wing by an aging and ailing portrait artist, Jackson Millieux. As Millieux's apprentice, Wunderle learned classical figure painting and portraiture and was exposed to the eclectic artistic influences of life in the French Quarter.
After college Wunderle continued as an artist, and relocated to the Pacific Northwest where she resides today. She works in mixed mediums and genres. Her work is thematic in concept, drawing correlations between physics and mysticism, utilizing representational elements metaphorically in both paintings and sculpture. Her visual vocabulary derives from ancient writing systems, western mysticism, which she associates with contemporary theories in cosmogony. Significant influences are as widely varied as the work, and include a heritage of folk art and craftsmanship, the renaissance Masters, Georgia O'Keefe, Andrew Goldsworthy, James Hill, Dale Eldrid, and many other mentors.
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Momentum in S
48 x 48 ($6,500)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
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