About

Diane Weintraub grew up in the mid-west with a passion for roaming the hills and streams of rural undeveloped land. For the last 20 years she has called San Diego, the most bio-diverse county in the USA, her home. Weintraub’s undergraduate and graduate studies were in fine art. Weintraub taught advanced drawing and art history at Cuyamaca College in San Diego for almost a decade.

Using both drawing and oil paint as dominant media Weintraub interweaves nature’s generative elements and imagined views into a work that juxtaposes both media and archetypal signifiers. Layers of drawn details of small objects from nature reveal and then are hidden by the painted images of the forest primordial, the places where myth and legend are birthed on its fecund floor. Weintraub employs images from our collective pre-historic unconscious, totemic images hardwired into our brain from a time when we lived off the land and roamed: emblematic images of deep dark pools, headwaters, and vernal streams winding through rich alluvial soils along with grassy savannas surrounded by protective cover of dense woodland. The result is a cohesive whole that speaks to the timeless and unending cycles of nature.