Diana Hansen

Contemporary American Artist

The art of Diana Hansen is a unique combination of the traditional and personal.  Her paintings and prints use traditional techniques and images as a framework for Hansen's own experience of the world; a view of reality that goes beyond the individual to the universal.  "As an artist, I am influenced by everything," she said, "but my work actually comes from another reality. It is another way of seeing."

For the major part of her life, that "other reality" has been closely aligned with the American Indian.  Born in San Francisco in 1942 and a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Hansen has been living and working in Rome since 1963.