Diane Colwell's photographic drawings developed from notions of degeneration, alteration and manipulation as evidence of the artists' involvement. Depicting the typical landscape as it naturally occurs, Colwell creates quick gestural marks using pastels and scratches, on-site as the Polaroid photograph instantly develops. These intuitive marks are a decisive response to the landscape in the same fashion as the definitive moment in taking the photograph. The hybrid artwork is then re-photographed, solidifying it in the large-format photographic realm.
Diane Colwell is a graduate of the University of Calgary with a double major in photography and painting. She has been widely collected throughout Canada. As an avid hiker, Diane Colwell is influenced by the landscape of western Alberta and British Columbia.
