Artist Spotlight with Chip Freund
Fun and engaging discussions with contemporary visual artists who answer five simple questions about their artistic journey, media, and inspirations. New episodes drop every other Tuesday.
The Artist Spotlight podcast is on indefinite hiatus effective July 18, 2023. I hope to be able to bring the show back at some point in the future. Thank you to our loyal listeners for your interest and support.
Artist Spotlight with Chip Freund
Artist Spotlight: Diana Coidan
A Signature Member of Pastel Society of America, and Signature Member of Pastel Society of North Carolina, award-winning pastelist, Diana Coidan, has been an accomplished and experienced full-time professional artist for over thirty years. Although she works in many mediums, working in soft pastels is her most expressive, offering her the rich color, variety, and immediacy to paint her award-winning pastels. A Business College graduate, Diana retired from an administrative position to pursue her love for art. Self-taught and after many painting/pastel workshops with well-known instructors, she discovered her own pathway to expression in pastels and developed her own signature style with strikingly realistic results. Diana's paintings focus on movement with various sky/cloud formations, rhythm of the sea in its many forms, and marine life, all evident of her unconscious attraction to blue.
(source: dianacoidan.com)
Diana’s work can be found on her website and at Bev's Fine Art, Raleigh, Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary, and Mattie King Davis Art Gallery in Beaufort, NC.
Website: www.dianacoidan.com
Diana's artist & resource recommendations:
Sally Strand - sallystrand.com
Bob Rankin - www.bobrankin.com
Diana's Beginning Pastels workshop January 2023 @ Bev's Fine Art
