HOME ABOUT US ARTISTS EVENTS CLASSES ENEWS SIGN UP Diana L. Coidan Pastels, Oil, Watercolor, Acrylic nadioc@aol.com · www.dianacoidan.com Click on images to enlarge Sailing the Sound Joy Ride Under the Tuscan Sunset Grandeur in the Sky Drawing and painting at an early age, Diana can't remember when she wasn't an artist. A Business College graduate, she retired from dental office administration in 1996 to purse her love for art. Self-taught and working in oil and acrylic for many years, she took a new approach, replacing brushes with palate knives in oils and added watercolor and pastel to her art mediums. Experimenting with pastels, she "fell in love" with this medium and became fascinated with creating works capturing the spectacular sky and discovered that working with the pastel medium, her pieces became strikingly photorealistic. She has an unconscious attraction to blue; therefore, most of her pieces capture the spectacular sky cloud formations and the beautiful sea. Recognized by many well-known jurors in local, regional, and national level juried competitions, Diana has been awarded numerous place and purchase awards for her pastels. With nineteen solo shows, three duo shows to her credits, she additionally completed two commissioned wall murals. She was selected for the Best of State and National Artists Juried Book Series receiving an Honorable Mentioned for one of her pastels published. Diana instructs workshops in pastels at Nicole's Studio & Gallery and Jerry's Artarama, Raleigh. A member of the Sertoma Park Artists Association, Fine Arts League of Cary, Watercolor Society of North Carolina, Carteret County Arts and Crafts Coalition, Sertoma Park Artists Association, Visual Art Exchange, and the Cary Gallery of Artists, Diana's work can be found in private and corporate collections in the Raleigh area, and she is represented at Nicole's Studio and Art Gallery, Raleigh, Exchange Gallery, Raleigh, Mattie King Davis Gallery in Beaufort, Arts n' Things Gallery in Morehead City, and the Cary Gallery of Artists in Cary. Diana is in various scheduled festivals throughout North Carolina. TOP © Cary Gallery of Artists. Please do not use or reproduce without written permission.