Mary Diefenbach Duke
Mary Diefenbach Duke is an oil and acrylic painter, and has developed an energy with a purpose. Painting En plein air; witnessing sunflowers at dawn, watching as an entire field of flowers raise their heads to greet the sun, inspires this urgency to create a painting that will magnify and unfold another small story of rural life, bringing it all to a greater sense of importance.
A self taught artist, having participated in numerous workshops and college courses; she has developed her own use of high key color, limited pallets, and assorted applications of texture, metal leaf, and painterly marks. She has been an art teacher, workshop facilitator, and enthusiastic volunteer at various Art Galleries.
Mary’s award winning work has been exhibited at Gallery One, The Palace Gallery, and the 420 Gallery all in Ellensburg. Recent exhibits at Boxx Gallery, Tieton; Larson Gallery, Yakima; Collective Visions Gallery, Bremerton; Combine Art Collective, Walla Walla ; and Modern Visual Arts in Bethlehem, PA. Her work resides in numerous private collections, and is exhibited at the Washington State Departmentof Ecology in Union Gap, Wa.
