Faculty & Staff

Diane Bywaters

Professor
Painting

Education

B.F.A. University of Kansas
M.F.A. Washington University

About

Diane Canfield Bywaters is an artist and Professor of Drawing and Painting. Her research concentrates on landscape painting in oils and with 30 years of painting she has developed a passion for en plein air painting (on location verses in the studio) in the alla prima (wet on wet) technique. She has painted extensively throughout the United States, France, England, Costa Rica, and Italy. She also has the honor of being selected to more current U. S. National Park artist-in-residency programs than any other artist. She lives for adventure painting and in the summer of 2006 participated on a whitewater rafting painting expedition of the Grand Canyon covering 220 miles.

Born in the Kansas City, she has taught for the past 24 years in the Midwest: DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, Columbus College of Art & Design, and since 1987 at the University of Wisconsin--Stevens Point where she was honored with the 1997 University Scholar Award and the 1992 University Teaching Excellence Award. In 2000 – 2004 she was in upper administration as the Director of Grants for the University (while teaching part time), and in the fall of 2004 returned to full-time teaching. Her art work is handled by several galleries and she has an extensive list of corporate collectors including Pepsi, 3-M, United Airlines, Amerada Hess Corporation, and Harris Bank. In 2007, she will be installing a $15,000 Wisconsin Percent for Art commission in the West Bend National Guard facility in West Bend, WI. In early 2008, she will be having yet another solo show at Hidell Brooks Gallery in Charlotte, NC—her sixth solo show at that specific gallery.

http://www.bywaters.info/