"Voyers" No AI here. these paintings come straight out of my soul. I paint in oil the slow way, underpainting my figures (model photos that I took).
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Who is Diane Burchette-Gomez?
Born in the South to Southern parents, Diane Burchette-Gomez grew up in the Midwest and longed for the coast, any coast. That describes Diane’s early years. As an adult she has lived in the East and Left coasts as well as the Gulf coast. Diane explains, “Port cities have a larger variety of cultures to feed my soul and influence my art.”
She is a graduate of Parsons’ School of Design for Illustration and Eugene Lang College for Social Psychology. After college she worked for her family’s Gourmet Food and Gift company, Aunt Sally’s Praline Shops, in New Orleans, Louisiana; meanwhile, creating art for herself.
She has alway been artistic however 38 years of life experiences led Diane to oil painting. “The feel of my brush gliding across a taut canvas, like it was ice skating, is intoxicating.” She became obsessed and quit her retail job to paint full time.
As Fate would have it, her adventurous spirit led to cracking a cervical vertebrae which brought her burgeoning painting career to a halt for almost a decade. (T-boned by a delivery van on her motorcycle, 10 years of martial arts and finally a mechanical bull in a bar.) The insatiable Art Spirit would not leave her alone. While recovering, Diane focused on drawing and painting for herself. "Some paintings are not made for public consumption," she would say.
Now in her 50's, Diane is once again showing her paintings, "There is nothing sexier than a fresh palette of paint." Trained as a classical oil painter in the methods of Leonardo DaVinci by Frank Covino, Diane is telling stories to reach down to the core of humanity. Every painting is a snippet of a psychological portrait of the multifaceted beings that we all are. Diane portrays emotions in paint.
Diane’s Artist’s Statement
There is a symbiotic relationship between what I am feeling when I encounter a memorable place or a striking model. That emotion is what I am painting, even in my landscapes. It’s my way of talking to the world as if to say, ‘haven’t you felt this way too?’ There is always a story.
Like Leonardo, experimenting can be expected, but my figures always start with a charcoal drawing and an underpainting of lead white with color layered on top. Geometry plays a major hidden role as well, using the golden ratio to plan compositions. Every painting is a sort of meditation and I learn something new about oil painting, myself and the world.
I am compelled to paint. It is who I am. Master Artists Daniel Greene and Frank Covino taught me the basics. Martial Artist Skip Hancock taught me that it's not what I do in the studio that's going to make me great; what I practice on my own will make me a master painter. I'm not there yet, but I get closer with every painting. The artists that influenced me the most are Bougeureau, Leonardo and Jacques Louis David. I create classical oil paintings but I love art of many other styles as well. There is room for all of us.
All of my paintings are created by me using places that I have visited and featuring models that I personally photographed. The compositions come from my imagination. Nothing has been created using AI.
Diane Burchette-Gomez