Diane Querry has painted animals and nature since she was eight years old. Her consuming, lifelong interests have been art and science. In college she obtained undergraduate and graduate degrees in Physics. She taught college Physics and Astronomy and painted during summer and semester breaks. Later, she worked in Industry as an Engineering Supervisor, a career which allowed little time for painting. In 1993, when offered a contract with Bentley House Fine Art Publishing (to print and market her work), Diane quit the engineering job to devote herself to full-time painting. |
Diane has had formal Art Institute coursework and has worked with master wildlife artists and painters in field settings and painting workshops. She has participated in numerous shows, won competitions, and received many honors in the field of art. |
She paints all types of animals in a whimsical way. She creates realistic outline sketches of the animal(s), paints realistic eyes, and then uses exaggerated, wild colors to depict them as painterly, fantasy creatures, which she calls "FANCIMALS".
Notice that her "Fancimals" have no outlined boundaries. This "lack of limits" adds to the animal's whimsey. She allows the viewer's eye to create the limits which define the animal's form. And - as she is not constrained to use the animal's actual colors - she is similarly permissive, allowing normally solid colored animals to have stripes, patches or dots, etc.
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Enjoy the Fancimals. Though you may not see them in a jungle - you never know when they might appear in your imagination.
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