Diane Morgan is an award-winning artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Michigan.  After working for 20 years in advertising, and most recently as Public Art Administrator for the City of Palm Springs, Diane now paints full-time.  She works in both oil and watercolor and her paintings have won numerous awards and appear in collections across the United States and Canada.

Diane is a member of the Palm Springs Art Museum’s Artists Council, Oil Painters of America, International Guild of Realism, California Art Club, American Watercolor Society, Transparent Watercolor Society of America, Watercolor West, President of the Coachella Valley Watercolor Society and an award-winning member of the National Watercolor Society.

Morgan’s paintings have been honored with prestigious awards in various exhibitions and competitions over the past five years.  Nine different paintings have been honored by such organizations as International Artist Magazine Still Life and Florals competition, City of Palm Springs Art Show, and by the publishers of Southwest Art and The Artists Magazine.  One of her pieces was selected for the Senate’s Ninth Annual California Contemporary Art Collection exhibition that was showcased in the State Capitol.  Another piece was juried into the 2009 89th Annual National Watercolor Society Exhibition and won an award.  Yet another piece was a finalist in the BLOSSOM competition on display at Florida's Naples Museum of Art in 2011.  And three of her pieces have been selected for display at the Palm Springs International Airport.   Two pieces exhibited in the most recent Paint America Top 100 competition.

I envision a painting in almost everything I see.  Adding drama and mystery through the use of powerful lighting effects, reflected surfaces, exaggerated contrasts and unusual compositions, I strive to transform simple everyday life into un-ordinary, not-so-still life. I like to take an ordinary subject and enhance the perception of it, invite the viewer to take a closer look.  If you look closer, you may discover something new about yourself. I love how the medium takes command. The artist starts the process, but the paint takes charge and leads the work to a sometimes unintended outcome.  It’s always exhilarating.