About Diane Englander...
A native New Yorker, Diane Englander came to the creation of art in mid-life, after a career that included some years as a lawyer at a large NYC law firm; work in NYC government; and 17 years as a management consultant to nonprofits.
“I was brought up going to galleries and museums, an attendant to my parents’ passion for looking and for collecting. My own expressive energy must have simmered internally for years, occasionally emerging in photography, in quilt-making, in other tentative explorations, and certainly in providing opportunity and materials for my children to create. Not until those children were nearly grown did I come unequivocally to the need to make art myself.”
In September 2006 Diane began making collages that started her on her current path; in September 2007 she left her consulting job to focus on her artwork full-time. She has studied with Bruce Dorfman at the Art Students League in New York. In 2010 she had a solo exhibit at the Living Room Gallery, Saint Peter’s Church, in Manhattan, and has had pieces in juried and in group exhibits in New York City and elsewhere in the United States. Two of her drawings will appear in a collection of essays edited by James McElhinney, to be published in 2012. Her work is in private and institutional collections.