Dianna Mammone

Dianna Mammone is from the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan who also spent a lot of time among her extended family in the hills of Appalachian Tennessee. She was exposed to traditional bluegrass music, as well as traditional craftworks of sewing, canning, quilting, and carving. After her years of education at the Center for Creative Studies and Washtenaw Community College, Dianna began her own Graphic Design Dianna turned her love of drawing into a small graphic and Illustration business, Art & Soul Studio. Over the years, Dianna has been employed as a Window Dresser and Display artist, Illustrator, a Potters and an Art Teacher for Gifted Child Society, and Art Center of Northern New Jersey teaching nursery school age through adults, as well as workshops.

Dianna re-entered the art scene after many years of working for herself in her studio and doing craft shows. She is proud to have her work exhibited in homes and galleries across the United States. She has been the award recipient in many of the art shows she has entered and was awarded Best in State of New Jersey in Ceramics. Now she has returned her attention to her first loves; drawing and painting in mixed media.

‘My artwork is inspired by the genre of Magic Realism blends together things both real and imaginary. I like to use my imagination to create a world of eccentric people, gorgeous flowers, and beguiling animals in a strange new world. I love the absurd beauty in animals from the deep, bugs that crawl, and people caught being themselves. I love wonder and awe and laughter. Art really is Magic, isn’t it?”

Dianna lives in New Jersey with her husband, children, and grandchildren along with 2 cats. 

My work is inspired by the genre of Magical Realism which is a blending of literal fiction and art. It paints a realistic view of the world while also adding magical elements.   

The goal of my brightly colored artwork is to bring to attention stories or images that are easily overlooked and to offer a different way of looking at everyday life.  

With line, color, and imagination, I hope to get others to pause and think and ask questions of the work.  I may start a painting in paint or artist crayon and then move into three dimensional elements, sculpting in bas-relief and continuing on to collage elements.

I work intuitively developing images that come from dreams, people watching, my everyday sketchbooks filled with bits and pieces of my imagination.  I love  people and nature, things that swim and slither, things large and microscopic, subjects real and imagined.

 The characters in my artwork are all inspired by true people and their stories I have been honored to know in my life.  I hope my pieces reflect their unique stories and personalities created through my interpretation, imagination, and skill. 

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