Rev. Diane Hardy Waller

 

Biography

 

 

Diane Hardy Waller has been an artist her whole life.  She came out of hiding in 1996 as a photographer. Drawing and painting resurfaced and then she moved on to co ownership in La Mano Pottery studio in Chelsea.  Since then, all three aspects of her art have been exhibited in galleries and exhibition spaces in New York City, Florida as well as other states  and Europe. Diane’s photographs appear in the award winning children’s books, “Where Does God Live?”, “Does God Hear My Prayer?” and “Does God Forgive Me?”  The Bronx Zoo uses her nature photography in signage and various Wildlife Conservation publications. In addition to photography, her paintings appear in exhibits and galleries in Manhattan and Florida and her ceramics are frequently displayed at La Mano pottery studio and other venues. 

 

The other side of Diane is that she is educated as an engineer, worked in the aerospace industry that she left to get her MBA.  With that, she was successful in the not for profit sector.  After finding that less than satisfactory to her creative nature and financial desires, she sold real estate in several states, landing in NYC in 1980.  Looking deep within her nature, in 1993, she was ordained as a minister. All in all, it came back to making art fulltime in 2002.  Today, Diane is happily painting, taking photographs and making non functional art clay.  Please visit her website to see the latest.  www.dianewaller.com . 

 

Diane credits Ernestine Ruben and Katherine Criss as her photography mentors. Nicky Orbach, Joseph Peller, and Frank O’Cain have all influenced her development as a painter. Her work in clay has been largely self taught in a teaching studio, La Mano Pottery, which she co-owns with two other ceramic artists.

photo credit home page image: Heike Neumeister, 2008