Diane Evans is a painter and museum professional whose work explores landscape through the intertwined lenses of art history, cultural politics, and lived experience.

Working primarily in acrylic, Evans creates atmospheric landscapes inspired by direct observation and a fascination with the visual world. Her paintings begin with close observation through photography and studio sketches.

Deeply influenced by the traditions of Medieval, Renaissance, and Romantic art traditions, Evans is interested in the frameworks of nature. She is an avid outrigger canoe paddler, a hiker, and a photographer who looks to experience the tactile and sensual aspects of putting herself into the landscape and photographing changing viewpoints of light, color, and sculptural elements. Evans is also interested in how communities frame nature through signage and icons dictating what is allowed and what is prohibited, what we need to be wary of - and how we should behave.

Her years working with artists, collections, and exhibitions continue to inform her studio practice. Museums taught her to look closely—to consider materials, context, and the histories embedded within objects and places. Painting has become a slower, more intimate way of engaging with those same questions: how we experience place, how we remember it, and what remains after transformation.