Dianne Horton had been painting and drawing long before she became an educator. “The conscious and subconscious choices involved in the process of completing a painting are a never-ending source of excitement and amazement for me,” Dianne said. She is a fourth generation artist. In 1999 she co-founded The Working Art Gallery in Belfast, ME. In this space, the owner/artists were able to maintain continuous open studios, meet customers and sell their work while featuring “traveling artists.” Dianne’s first influence was her great aunt, Ethel Wight, who owned the Wight Studio in Ocean Park, ME in the early 1900’s. She was the first female member of the Portland Camera Club. Her photographs were recently on exhibit at the Portland Museum of Art, one of which is the famous photo of Lindbergh landing his plane on the sand at Old Orchard Beach. Dianne’s medium is watercolor and pen & ink and she loves painting seascapes and boats and lobstermen in peaceful harbors in her unique whimsical style. Her fascination with Belfast’s historic structures has led her to paint centuries-old buildings and homes on a commission basis. Dianne has expanded her work to include tiles and mirrors. Dianne maintains an open studio and gallery on Swan Lake in Swanville , Maine just 7 miles from Belfast, Maine. Click
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