Artist's Statement

"I have been drawing since I can remember. Sky - people - flowers - landscape, have all compelled me to capture their essences in pencil, charcoal, ink, and pastel.

"My observation of the subject has become a record of time. Barns collapse. Flowers return to the earth. Cultures are threatened with extinction by homogenization. I stand as a recorder of my environment and time. Process and subject are the passion. The results are offered to the observer for an interpretation of the record."

Diane Leifheit has been a member of the Guild since 2002. Her interest in pastel began early when an she received a box of hand-me-down pastels from a relative. In 2002 the artist returned to pastel, exploring different themes of the Adirondacks, the garden and travels in the Yucatan. In the last two years Leifheit has become enamored of plein air, the method of painting outdoors, a tradition that began with the impressionists in the late 1800s. Her work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions regionally and nationally including a Gold prize from the Adirondack Show at Lake Placid Center for the Arts and for the last 3 years at the Art Center of Old Forge’s National Northeast Pastel Show. In 2007 her work was published by North Light Books in “Strokes of Genius” and Kennedy Publications “Best of Pastel”.

View to Jenkins, Osgood

Pastel 11" x 17", 800.00

 

Dreamland

Charcoal 14" x 23", 600.00

 

Summer Trumpets

Pastel 23" x 35",1800.00

 

 

First Light

Pastel 17" x 10.5", 950.00

Apple Crisp, Anyone?

Paste; 24" x 10" , 995.00

3--2--1----Action

Charcoal, 18" x 24", 400.00

 

Island Edge

Pastel 12" x 13", 485.00

 

Daisy-Daze

Pastel 8.5" x 16", 995.00

Hunkering (left) and Strength (right)

Each is 16" x 13", Hunkering is 300.00 and Strength is SOLD