| Science Art One (astronomical) | Science Art Two (botanical) |
| Science Art Three (The Stuff Of Creation) | Science Art Four (Fowler's Star Stuff) |
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The artist has a fine arts degree with an emphasis on drawing along with a minor in art history from Kutztown University. Her works have have been displayed in East End Gallery and Between The Pages Coffeeshop (both of Appleton WI), at the Apple Butter Fest and the Angels for Animals Holiday Art Show & Sale, and were employed in sets of Victorian Players theatre group. The drawing Crow was used as the cover for J.P.Dancing Bear’s 2004 book Billy Last Crow. The Geology of The National Parks (Harris/Tuttle) and Keystone Trails Association Pennsylvania Hiking Trails Calendar and website have published her photographs. Spending seventeen years in chocolate factories has given her talents ranging from running a molding line to producing the liquid chocolate to creating fine European truffles by hand. She has circumnavigated the perimeter of the state of Pennsylvania on a solo bike-packing trip, solo-backpacked across the mountains (small ones) of this most favorite state for 2 weeks at a time, assisted in the cave survey of Wind Cave National Park, and performed renovations of planetarium domes.
| Indulging In A Passion For Mark-Making: With adrenaline-charged mark-making the artist attempts to portray the heaving mass of life forms around her, painting and drawing fields of energy and minefields of emotion and thought which are clearly visible to her. She sees a landscape that writhes, twists, and sometimes rises, envelopes and embraces. Her pieces often try to record a compressed geologic history. This vision is applied to figures and activities that capture her wits, are absorbed, digested & spewed back out upon the working surface. The artist finds bird and land forms apt vehicles for translating her personal delvings into existentialism— i.e. why make art at all? A rising bird, a seeking bird, a storm-tossed bird, a scrabbling-in-the-gritty-barnyard dirt-bird, a bird terrorized trying to escape the crazed snorting bull . . . and a carnival bird, all are used to symbolize the searching soul. Pieces are physically worked into, pushed, pulled, gashed, soothed and stroked. A wide variety of mostly water-soluble media are used to converse with the surfaces, usually crashing beyond any boundaries of tidiness. |
Diana Ludwig, Fine Artist and Illustrator
HC 1 Box 169 Clarington Pennsylvania 15828 (Studio)
1128 Logan Ave McDonald Ohio 44437
330-530-2659 (Studio: 814-752-6328)