diana gnehm

Art to me is any work that gives one a feeling of aesthetic and psychological pleasure. Most of the time I start with a sketch involving some kind of shape sensations that my hands follow which I think are fun and intriguing. I get ideas from my travels, geometric shapes of buidings, stones, landscapes or organic and microscopic shapes but frequently, from my photography.
Then these are translated to canvas and combined into non-objective compositions. During the long editing process, I use many techniques and additives like encaustic paints creating unusual surface that entices the viewer and accentuates the process of investigating the artwork longer than it would normally be looked upon.

I am a published paid writer as well so I use my art as a communication tool and put what I think about the subject by embedding words on the surface of my canvas.
While sometimes, the painting has no identifiable subject matter, each piece is decorative and has a voice of its own resulting in upbeat positive feelings to the viewers. Therefore, it becomes a conversational piece for its uniqueness maintaining the value and providing years of provocative delights and intigues in interpretation and touch each time the unusually happy art is viewed.

People see and feel my art. If my viewer do these in front of my painting, I know their emotions are valid and real. They sense my artworks through these actions so it doesn’t really need any intellectual analysis. The public notices the artwork right away because of the happy mood it creates in any space. Therefore, those who possess my art connect with me. “Psychological Fuel” and “Emotional Pleasure” – these are what you see in my art.