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Biography: Diane Rollins Feissel

•  Diane Rollins Feissel 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. Most recently she attended an intensive portrait painting workshop with Nicole Michelle Tully/Studio Escalier in Argenton-Chateau, France.

Diane moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1998, exhibiting work at Hang Art, The Los Gatos Art Museum, Studio Gallery, 66balmy, LIMN Gallery, and other venues. In both 2003 and 2005 Diane's work was picked for ArtSpan's biennial juried exhibition, Selections; Diane's work has been selected for other national juried shows, including the 2005 Georgetown International Fine Arts Competition at Fraser Gallery in Washington, D.C.

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. 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 paintings were exhibited in a group exhibition at Karin Sanders Fine Art in Sag Harbor, NY. Diane relocated to Raleigh, North Carolina in 2007 and has shown with Flanders Art Gallery and is a member of both Artspace and Visual Art Exchange. Her studio is at 311 West Martin Street Galleries and Studios in downtown Raleigh's warehouse district.

Also a portrait painter, her paintings and commissioned portraits hang in private collections throughout the country and abroad.