american artist
Diane Hoeptner
painting
There’s so much beauty in the world. As an artist, I feel it when I paint floral still
life and cats. There is comfort associated with both. I never stop feeling dazzled
by the variety of outcomes that can be achieved within the framework of still life
painting. Visual components like opposites
on the color wheel or the passage of dark to
light are springboards for my compositions.
Flowers have an ethereal beauty that both
reassures and revitalizes one’s spirit.
I see ethereal beauty in cats too, but
cats bring personality and movement. I
discovered this when I started painting my
own cats who are perfect embodiments of
sweetness and snark. They are enigmatic
little beasts, the kind who never smile.
Portraying cats in a way that doesn’t reduce
them to sentiment and cliché is important to me.
My inner design junkie must be constantly fed
as well as challenged, as long as flowers spring
from the earth and cats frolic, I indulge. Life is
good and hopefully my paintings communicate
that sentiment in a way the viewer can feel.
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