Dianne Anderson

Dianne Anderson is a local artist and art teacher residing in Juneau for over two decades. She is in love with the land called Alaska and her work reflects this joy in the life cycles of the wilderness, and the warmth of it's people.

One of her favorite themes is the summer roadside blooms of fuchsia and pink as fireweed engulfs the ditches and fields of Alaska.

Mendenhall Valley Field of Fireweed© Dianne Anderson

Zinc etching is a process of drawing into a zinc plate, then submerging the zinc in acid to form the lines, which then holds the inked colors.  The inked plate is then rubbed and pressed to the paper.  An edition is printed on hand-made paper, sometimes made pink from beets.  Other etchings are printed on hand-made paper from fireweed or the artist's blue jeans.

Dianne's Ice Dancing and Mendenhall Rhapsody employ an interesting embossing technique: fully carved linoleum is pressed well into the wet paper without inking to lend emphasis to the white ice floes.  Ice Dancing received the 1993 People's Choice and Juror's Merit awards in Juneau's Audubon Show.  It also was displayed at the Fairbanks All-Alaska Women's Show and at a national competition in Cheyenne, Wyoming, where it won 1st place for mixed media.  Heron Magic, an indigo etching, won People's Choice at the 1994 Audubon show.  It graced the cover of the UAS Explorations Magazine and was also published in Poet's Market, a national magazine.  

Shows:  2004, 2006 & 2008 University of Alaska faculty art show, KTOO Tuning into Art, Juneau Douglas City Museum Mother/Son Art Show, and featured artist in the Kachemak Bay Shore Bird Festival in Homer, AK.  Alaska: By the Seat of Your Pants is a multi-etching collage on blue jean paper which won first place in the 1998  Artabon, Juneau, and 1st place in the 1999 Ketchikan Blueberry Arts Festival, and was accepted in the West Coast Paper Show, Seattle Center 1999.  

Previously Shown at
Hummingbird Fest, Ketchikan, Alaska

Homage to the Birds of SE Alaska

Sapsucker Homage