Bio

Dianne Massey Dunbar began painting at the age of seven and she has been painting ever since. In 1997 she discovered the Art Students League of Denver, where she had the opportunity to study with master artists Quang Ho, Mark Daily, Ron Hicks and Kevin Weckbach. She has been painting professionally since 1999. Since then she has earned numerous national awards, including the Master Category Silver Medal Award in the 2013 American Women Artists National Exhibition, Best of Show in the 2007 Oil Painters of America Central Regional Exhibition, and the Silver Medal Award in the 2007 Oil Painters of America National Exhibition. In 2010 she had a solo museum show at the Byers/Evans House Museum in Denver, CO. She has had feature articles in Southwest Art and American Art Collector magazines, articles in several other art magazines, as well as inclusion in a coffee table book, “Painted Sky: 106 Artists of the Rocky Mountain West,” (E. Ashley Rooney, December 2015).

She is a Master Signature Member of American Women Artists, a Signature Member of Oil Painters of America, and a member of the Art Students League of Denver.

Massey Dunbar is a Colorado native and currently resides in Aurora, Colorado.

Education

2003-2004 Studied under Ron Hicks and Kevin Weckbach, Art Students League of Denver
2000-2002 Studied under Mark Daily, Art Students League of Denver
1998-2002 Studied under Quang Ho, Professional Studies Class, Art Students League of Denver
1980-1981 Rocky Mountain School of Art
1959-1979 Studied under Harold A. Wolfinbarger, Jr.