Diane Bell's Watercolors
About Diane
Watercolor painting has been my passion for many years and it certainly helped to keep me sane during this past year. Hopefully the covid lockdown will be behind us soon giving us more freedom to do what we love with other people.
I earned a degree in graphic design from Iowa State University and raised a big family after settling in New England from the midwest. What a gift as I never run out of subject matter, I paint usually from my own digital pictures taken in and around my home here in Massachusetts.
Art affiliations
Vermont Watercolor Society
Associate member of the New England Watercolor Society
Franklin Art Association
Hopkinton Art Center
Awards
Vermont Watercolor Society Award - 2018 Green Mountain Watercolor Exhibition
Vermont Watercolor Society Award - 2015 Green Mountain Watercolor Exhibition
1st place award – Second Annual Weston Paint-out 2013
2nd place award – First Annual Weston Paint-out 2012
Marie Hickey Memorial Award – 2012 Monadnock Area Art Association’s Art in the Park, Keene, NH 2012
Recent Exhibits;
2021 - New England Watercolor Society's Associates Exhibition, March 5 to April 28
2020 - Small Stones Festival of the Arts Online exhibition October and November
2020 - Wellesley Free Library exhibit through the month of October
2020 - New England Watercolor Society's North American juried exhibition, Plymouth, MA; November 1
2019 - Month-long exhibit at the Norfolk Library, Norfolk, Massachusetts
2019 - Vermont Watercolor Society's juried Spring Exhibit, Southern Vermont Art Center
2019 - Vermont& Beyond Fine Art Exhibition, Weston Playhouse
2018 - Charlotte Center Center, Charlotte, VT
2018 - Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover, NH
2018, 17 - VWS Spring juried exhibit, Festival Gallery, Waitsfield, VT
2018, 16,15,14 - Green Mountain Watercolor Exhibition, Waitsfield, VT
2017, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12-Annual Vermont & Beyond Fine Art Exhibit, Weston Playhouse
2016 - VWS Fall Awards Exhibit, Ava Gallery, Lebanon, NH
2015 - Fall National Exhibit, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT
2015 - VWS Juried Exhibit, Taylor Gallery, Meriden, NH