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HC 55 Box 9101
Ceiba,
Puerto Rico 00735
Diane Cutter, Painter/Printmaker
more of Diane's work can be seen at:
www.dianecutter.com
note: Artist's website will open in a new window.
Exhibits and Awards
From 1978 through 1990, Diane had a number of one-woman shows as well as regular participation in group shows and galleries in El Salvador, Washington DC, Virginia, North Carolina, Jordan and Honduras.
In 2001 she received an award
for her painting "Morning in the Marina" at the New Mexico Watercolor
Society Spring Exhibition, Tom Lynch, juror; and two awards
in "Unity in Diversity", a juried exhibition in San Juan, for
oil ("Yellow Sail Tie") and watercolor ("Lone Dinghy"). Over
the years she has conducted numerous painting, drawing and printmaking
workshops.
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Raised in California, New Mexico, Spain and Mexico, Diane Cutter continued her nomadic life as an adult living overseas in Latin America and the Middle East with her first husband, raising two daughters and being a "good Foreign Service wife". During that time she always painted, being strongly influenced by the distinct cultures she encountered.
In the early 1990s Diane developed her own greeting card business, Cutter Studios, in Virginia but left that in 1992 to pursue the good life in Puerto Rico, teaching SCUBA and running deluxe sailing charters with husband, Brian Robbins.
In 1999, after a seven-year hiatus, she returned to the art community as co-founder/President of the newly formed East End Art Guild. She now lives and paints in the cool, green Puerto Rican mountains overlooking the quaint town of Ceiba and distant Culebra Island. Her work is held in private collections in the United States, Puerto Rico, Honduras, El Salvador, Spain, and Jordan.
Professional Associations
- East End Art Guild
- Asociación Acuarelista de Puerto Rico
- New Mexico Watercolor Society
- International Society of Marine Painters
- American Society of Marine Artists
Education
Diane's academic life includes the University of New Mexico (BA), Northern Virginia Community College (Fine Arts-Summa Cum Laude), and the Academia Centro Valero Lecha (Escuela de Bellas Artes in El Salvador).
She has studied life drawing with Benjamin Saul, Spanish sculptor resident in El Salvador; printmaking with Virginian Carol Sue Lebbin; oil painting with California painter/art critic Peter Plagens and New York painter Doug Sanderson, visiting professors at UNC-Chapel Hill; and watercolor with Jim Kosvanec and Monica Linville Laird.
