An unusually wide variety of colors and textures can be seen in Dr. Diane M. Kline’s paintings. “I want people to feel an emotional response,” Kline says, “to be drawn into the painting by the movement of color and design.” The feeling of motion in her images comes from her dynamic sense of composition and the palpable energy with which she places paint on the canvas. Paint may be dripped, swirled or applied with broad brushstrokes. Yet that energy is tempered by a fine sense of control. The movement of a drip of paint across the canvas in one image will be as precisely executed as a meticulously rendered dragon snaking through another.
Kline’s color sense is as distinctive as her designs. Working with a palette that runs from whites and subdued earth tones to metallic shades, she balances shades off of one another with the kind of control that is evidenced in her compositions. She also mixes textures, using a range of materials, from acrylics to metallic paints and from recycled rocks to paper, sometimes achieving a near three-dimensional effect through the layering of those materials. The result of all the contrasts is a surprisingly harmonious one that fully achieves Kline’s goal of inviting the viewer in.
The artist lives and works in Palm Desert, California.
“Moderne Chinese 2”
