Diane Hoppmann will be showing a retrospective of her nature paintings, mixed media
portraits and dog photography at the Arkansas State University Art Gallery upstairs in
the Shied building, 1600 South College Street, Mountain Home, Arkansas, July 1- July 29,
2024. Opening reception is July 11, 4-6 P.M.
Diane’s inspiration for her work is drawn from her two favorite muses- Nature and animals.. Her
sensitive connection to each of these can be seen through changing light, color and
perspective.
Her work takes the viewer through the last fifteen years of her journey living in Long Island,
New York, Washington D.C. and Baxter County, Arkansas. Diane’s paintings are executed in an
impressionistic style mostly on larger canvases. Her subjects include local landscapes of
creeks, rivers and lakes. Her other work includes portraits of dogs she has known, mixed media
children paintings from her time in D.C. when racism and police conflict was particularly higher
than normal, and horse paintings from when she volunteered at a Long Island horse sanctuary
and a horse therapy facility for the disabled. She calls her experience of connecting to the earth
through the act of creating “ being home.”
Diane Hoppmann was born in Madison, Wisconsin and currently lives in Mountain Home.
Diane graduated from the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. earning a B.F.A. She
also attended the post Baccalaureate program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and
graduated from New York University in New York City with an M.A.
She then continued to paint and show her work while starting her own successful decorative
painting business in New York and Washington, D.C. for the next thirty years. Diane is also
represented by New York Talent agents and continues to work as a commercial actor/model.
Her featured exhibitions and clients include East Hampton Center for Contemporary Arts,
Adrian Arscht, Eileen Fisher, Ralph Lauren Home, and Hertz World Wide Corporate
Headquarters, Springfield airport gallery(current), Donald W. Reynolds Library(current).
