At its best her work will stop your world, it won't let you go. AliceJean Dieffenbach creates art that makes your heart sing, makes your mind reflect, makes your soul smile. Her paintings will engage all your senses. You'll see things as you never saw them before, nature and people are transformed.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
"My work brings you up close for an intimate encounter with life and nature. I reduce subjects to their essential forms in order to emphasize their character, their grandeur and their vulnerability.
It could be said that I orchestrate a painting. My style is unique in the way I employ a variety of techniques to create a harmonious and seemingly spontaneous composition.
I build up layers of transparent colors, sometimes leaving marks to show what has gone before. Sometimes I scrape away paint to reveal the creative process. I use the knife to apply thick impasto, and I drag dry brushwork over underpainting to create texture.
My unusual color sense communicates a variety of moods and emotions. Throughout the process I use my imagination to emphasize all the qualities that make each subject unique. I paint fiction.
Being a prolific artist, my body of work changes and evolves rapidly and is always fresh and new. Constantly I explore new territory - "ideas are everywhere." I have been inspired by many artists. Some are: Matisse, Hockney, Cezanne, Diebenkorn, Picasso and Van Gogh.
Education and Background
AliceJean Dieffenbach graduated from Duke University where she earned a BA in Art History. At Johns Hopkins University she received her Masters degree in administration. Graduate work in fine art was done at both the Maryland Institute College of Art and Towson University in Baltimore. She taught art and was an art department chairman and curriculum specialist in the Baltimore County secondary school system. She instructed special methods of teaching art at Goucher College.
Listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who of American Women, AliceJean sang professionally in opera and the musical theater. With her husband she raised a son and twin daughters and currently resides in the San Diego area. Her studio is located in
Rancho Santa Fe, California. Her work has been exhibited extensively in Southern California and is in many private collections throughout the United States.
