Dianne K. Webb
Painter
Most recently Webb has been exploring the idea of transformation by focusing on the detritus from this process. Inspired by milkweed pods, cocoons and chrysalises, across, and other natural objects she developed a process that uses natural silk fibers to make paper that is then molded into various vessels and forms creates each etherial yet solid artifact allowing the imagination to consider what inhabited these remnants and what may have emerged.
Other current works include an abstract collage based series on migrations. Using ink on various papers and fabrics applied with artist-made natural brushes, sewn with thread and dotted with ink, the artist examines the human (and other species) practice of migrations—traversing terrain from one place to another.
Born in Maine, Webb is the middle generation of three generations of visual, literary, healing, and performing artists. She holds a BA and an MFA from Lesley University. Dianne K. Webb maintained a studio in Houston, TX for more than a decade and is now producing work in Studio 2 at Running With Scissors.
