PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Fine Art Photographer and Artist, Diane Epstein Art
2003-present

Founder, Artist Salon
2013-present

An international community of artists, where creative professionals can exchange ideas, collaborate and organize multidisciplinary exhibits

Founder, Artful Agility
2019-present

Creativity and wellness retreats for change-makers and leaders across industries that bring deeper connections, promote healing and foster creative wayfinding

Diane exhibits her photography in prestigious galleries, showrooms, museums, embassies, art institutions and Universities in Europe, Asia and the United States. Epstein’s work has been commissioned all over the world, including prestigious art collectors and ambassadors, Universities, boutique and luxury hotels and healing environments. Diane has exhibited her photography in numerous galleries and showrooms in New York, San Francisco, Boston and Washington, DC, and internationally in Italy and Asia.

Founder of Artist Salon
2013 – present

Diane leads an international artistic community where creative professionals and artists exchange ideas, collaborate and organize multidisciplinary exhibits in order to realize their creative potential and share the transforming power of art with the world.Diane Epstein paves the leading edge in biophilic art and experience design with art collectors, creative change-makers, interior designers, architects, healthcare advocates and innovative companies who desire to awaken a sense of serenity, refuge and aliveness into their people and their built environment. Diane’s mission is to change the nature of the workspace, hospitality and healthcare environments that feel more like sanctuaries — to enliven the imagination and invite deeper connection, inspired work and profound healing.

Founder, Artful Agility
2019-present

Diane Epstein collaborates with change-makers and leaders across industries - from artists, designers, architects, art collectors, nature/ biophilic advocates and creative/ health strategists. She leads Artful Agility creativity and wellness retreats (customized, virtual and in-person), and is commissioned to do art installations that bring deeper connections, creative wayfinding and refuge. Her work is designed to for healing, connection, love, and an alignment to nature and that which we are innately drawn to.  Diane interweaves an innovative approach to experience design, where Vision Quests, participatory design and artful murals are integrated into the interior environment for virtual / digital spaces, large-scale art and more authentic engagement.

ITALY’S INFLUENCE ON THE ARTIST

“Italy was my home for two decades, and so many moments will be with me always: Walking down a cobblestone street and glancing up just in time to catch the sunlight shyly caressing the iconic Roman columns, the off-the-beaten path with 3000 year old olive trees still standing. And the outdoor markets, bringing home zucchinni blossoms, artichokes off the vine, and plump fresh figs, adding to the bodyful, loving culture of indulging and communing around the table.

I was in the grip of heart-stopping beauty at every turn, it seemed. And everywhere, I perceived this sweet reverence for imperfection and the patina of time, which overlay the ancient trees, the crumbling walls, and the centuries-old structures that still possess an undiminished poise and strength of character. 

We are always in a dance with our environment — we shape it, and it shapes us. For me, the feast for the senses that is Italy became an irresistible invitation to take up my camera and join that dance, with its own rhythm and sense of timing, and beauty, and the power of its fragility, healing and transformation.

For much of my career, I’d been a creativity mentor and therapist dealing with matters of the heart and mind.  Soon after returning back to California, I would seek to create images that become part of that larger universal dance in the external world – images that not only reflect a deep love of life and the art of living, but which also become part of environments that breathe life and vitality into the people who visit, dwell or work in them.

My creative process continues to evolve, adding more collage and painting to the fresco photography, superimposing images that reveal the enchanting spirit of nature, people, place and the patina of time. I seek a form of visceral expression that is as physically present, transformative and optically tactile and multi- dimensional as life itself

Research now tells us what we sensed all along: that there’s a direct connection between design, and the stirring and engagement of positive emotion.

My intuition tells me that somewhere beyond science, it’s possible to listen to my images as well as view them. They have stories to whisper, dreams to evoke.

I’d love to know: When you allow yourself to pause and look deeper into one of the Fresco Photographs, when you allow your imagination to run wild, what do you see, what do you feel? 

Perhaps together we can create an experience that goes beyond and breaks free of the static walls that beg to breathe in something fresh and groundbreaking.

What I know for sure is that I am here on earth to create images that reveal the ancient wisdom, as well as the power of love, illumination and the beauty and luscious, imperfect perfection of nature and all that is alive. I make art that pays tribute to the timeless, that celebrates ageless beauty, and that is intended to make you feel grateful and happy to be alive.

Because life is, after all, very sweet indeed.”

— Diane Epstein