Diane Feissel is a painter currently living and working in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania after having grown up on Cape Cod, Massachusetts and living in San Francisco, California and Raleigh, North Carolina. Diane studied painting at Bryn Mawr College and Haverford College in Pennsylvania, and continued studies through classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia, and with Studio Escalier in France.

She has exhibited work at Karin Sanders Fine Art, Hang Art, The Los Gatos Art Museum, Studio Gallery, 66balmy, LIMN Gallery, Mina Dresden Gallery, Flanders Art Gallery, Flanders 311, Visual Art Exchange, Artspace, The Philadelphia Sketch Club and the Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art. In October 2005 Diane was one of a select group of San Francisco artists exhibiting in Paris through the Le Génie de la Bastille Invitational, and in 2007 she participated in a two-person exhibition at Galerie Cupillard in Grenoble, France, as part of an exchange with Grenoble painter Juliette Lemontey. Diane's work has been selected for national juried exhibitions, including the 2005 Georgetown International Fine Arts Competition at Fraser Gallery in Washington, D.C. She was also a finalist in Artist's Magazine's Annual Art Competition in both 2005 and 2006, and is a finalist in the 2010 Richeson 75: Figure/Portrait competition.

Diane's paintings and commissioned portraits hang in private collections throughout the country and abroad.