Dianne Rodwell
She is represented by several galleries nationwide, and her artworks are housed in private and corporate collections throughout the United States as well as in Australia, Japan, Sweden, Paris and London.
In North Carolina her originals can be found in the permanent collections of SAS, GlaxoSmithKline, the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Greater Raleigh Visitors Bureau and others.
Her works have been exhibited at Elon College in Greensboro; in the C.M. Russell Museum, Great Falls, Mont.; the New England Fine Arts Institute in Boston; and the Agora, Ariel and Ward-Nasse Galleries of New York City.
Duke University’s Bryan Center has hosted two solo exhibitions of the artist’s works, and Mims Gallery of N.C. Wesleyan College awarded her a month-long, 30-year retrospective.
Among the artist’s awards is the 2010 Woman of the Year in the Arts from Warren County, N.C., her native county.
She has received two National Grumbacher Awards; Washington, D.C.’s Artprint Magazine’s National Publication Award; and Honorable Mention/oils in the The Artist’s Magazine’s 2010 Online International Competition.
She studied art in Montana at the College of Great Falls, which was an artists’ mecca at the time, and she spent ten years of her career in the Big Sky Country.
She has conducted workshops for colleges and schools and private encaustic workshops in her Artspace studio and elsewhere.
Her website is www.diannerodwell.com
