Diane Richey-Ward

RECENT WORK

Seeking Coalescence merges photography with large-scale charcoal and pastel drawing to create layered, hybrid images suspended between material and illusion. Through projection and digital transformation, original drawings evolve into archival pigment prints that hold both gesture and photographic trace.

Within this practice, the Ghost Botanicals series explores botanical forms as sites of fragility and metamorphosis - where flowers fracture, dissolve, and hover between presence and disappearance.

Each composition seeks a precise moment of energetic convergence - when layered abstractions reach their fullest charge. Over twenty-five years of international travel and artist residencies have continually informed this practice, providing both material encounter and conceptual expansion.