Dianne Anderson

Dianne Anderson is a local artist and retired art teacher residing in Juneau for almost three 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 its 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, etching

If not creating art, Dianne can be found tending her garden at her North Douglas log cabin. She is the mother of 2 grown sons, and is married to artist and fishing advocate, Mark Vinsel.

Her media include oil paintings, silk batik, and zinc etching. 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.  Editions are printed on hand-made paper, made from fireweed or the artist's bluejeans. 

Dianne's batik scarves, featured during a previous First Friday Art Walk

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.  

Oil paintings: 2010

Mendenhall Night Magic

Denali, the Great One

North Douglas: INUA of the Land

Giclee prints are available.