Growing
up in rural Texas, Diane Maxey had little access to art, though
she was strongly drawn to it from her earliest days. Enrolling
at North Texas State University in art and finding herself
well behind graduates of big city schools, she chose to major
in art education.
When
her toddler daughter tried to drink turpentine, ever-vigilant
Diane Maxey turned to watercolor and has never gone back to
oils. In nearby Arlington, famed watercolorist Al Brouillette,
was teaching a night class. Maxey enrolled in his class and
continued taking it for several years. She has enriched her
studies since then with watercolorists like Robert E. Wood,
Milford Zornes and Dick Phillips.
Today, Diane Maxey lives with her husband, Bill, in Paradise
Valley, AZ, where she paints daily and continues to explore
the byways of watercolor. She is a signature member of the
Southwestern Watercolor Association, the Arizona Watercolor
Association, the Texas Watercolor Society and an associate
of the American Watercolor Society. Her work is exhibited
in galleries across Arizona and in California.
Diane Maxey teaches her innovative watercolor techniques in
classes and workshops at the Scottsdale Artist's School, conducts
workshops across the US and has taken workshop groups to Spain,
Italy, Greece and France.
Her work is well represented in a number of publications,
including Splash 5, Best of Watercolor II, Freshen Your Paintings
with New Ideas, Fresh Flowers - The Best of Flower Paintings.
She has also written articles for a number of artists' magazines,
the latest of which is in Watercolor Magic, Spring 2000.
