Diane Mansfield Colligan

I am an artist living in Viana do Castelo, Portugal. I have been making art for 30 plus years
in relative obscurity with shows here and there. I mainly work with collectors who follow my work. I enjoy the personal relationship this allows. I travel throughout the year to photograph images that I will incorporate in my art.
I use encaustic as a medium to work with collaged images of my photographs along with painting and drawing.
My work is small and intimate. It evokes a private world that I share with the viewer. A place we can both discover as our memories reveal our paths and experiences no longer hidden or forgotten.
I am inspired greatly by poetry of all kinds. Fernando Pessoa, Dogen, Eliot, Merwin, Cummings, Bishop, Yeats ....

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photography - San Francisco Art Institute

Rancho Linda Vista 2014, Oracle Az
Arizona Encaustic 2012, Tucson AZ
The Drawing Studio Annual, Tucson AZ 2011
Hacienda Del Sol Encaustic Artists, Tucson AZ 2011
Dinnerware Contemporary Gallery / Buddha Show Tucson AZ 2003
Etherton Gallery/Temple of Music and Art/Van Gogh Fakes and Self Portraits Tucson,AZ 2002
Tucson Museum of Art / Past Biennial Purchase Awards 2001
Tucson Museum of Art / Arizona Biennial ’99 1999
Tucson Museum of Art/ Selections from the Photography Collection 1999
Tucson Museum of Art / D’Art 1998
University of Arizona Gallery / One Person Show “The Relevance of the Beautiful” 1997
Tucson Museum of Art / Images of San Xavier Del Bac 1997
Apparatus Gallery , Tucson, AZ 1997
Tucson Museum of Art / Biennial ’97
Central Arts Collective / Death a Round Trip Ticket Tucson, AZ 1997
Pima College “Afterlife” 3 person show Tucson, AZ 1997
Tohono Chul / “Birds” Tucson, AZ 1996
Tucson Museum of Art / Recent Aquistitions 1996
Womens Caucus For the Arts / Tucson, AZ 1996
Tohono Chul / “Bloom” 1996
Tucson Museum of Art / D’Art 1996
University of Arizona /College of Fine Arts “Picture This” 1996
National Museum of Women in the Arts “Global Focus” Washington, DC 1996
Elite Gallery “ Global F...