diane ellery
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| Location | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
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| Introduction | Diane Ellery is an artist who routinely extends her limits of performance through both exploration of subject and experimentation with varied media and tools. Her daily practice consists of drawing and painting as well as meditation and writing tasks. By extracting and distilling elements from music and the natural world, Diane creates compelling works ranging from realism to abstraction. |
| Interests | container gardening, yoga, egyptian cuisine, zumba, birding, vibrational healing, hiking, gluten-free baking, magpies,language, weight training, sketching, photography, alternative medicine, biking, recycling, composting |
| Favorite music | Music is breath. It enters my dream world and continues as i awaken, the volume rising as my body also rises. The following are powerful musicians and groups who,over the past year or so, have deeply influenced my emotions, my consciousness and the direction of my artwork. Mariza,Forro in the Dark, Salif Keita,Gilberto Gil,Seu Jorge,Cesaria Evora,Zebda,Kiran Ahluwalia,Maryam Mursal,Alex Cuba,Maurice Ravel,Hildegard Von Bingen, Amadou & Mariam, Manu Chau, Zucchero Fornaciari,Pacifika,Krishna Das, Angelique Kidjo,Celia Cruz, Aterciopelados, Ozomatli |
| Favorite books | The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (Mark Bittner), Animal Speak (Ted Andrews), Seven Years in Tibet (Heinrich Harrer), Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (Henry David Thoreau), Peace is Every Step (Thich Nhat Hanh), In the Garden (Jennifer Bartlett),Why Cats Paint/Why Paint Cats (Burton Silver), Starlight Elixirs & Cosmic Vibrational Healing (MIchael Smulkis & Fred Rubenfeld), Plants of Alberta (France Royer & Richard Dickinson), National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Backroad Mapbooks, Cezanne's Watercolors (Mathew Simms), Experimental Drawing (Rober Kaupelis), A Passion for Watercolor (Stefan Draughon), Keys to Drawing With Imagination (Bert Dodson), The Grammar of Chinese Ornament (Owen Jones) |