Dianna Hollyn Catania, originally from Northport, NY, began drawing and painting at an early age. Awarded Long Island’s Best Young Artist, her work has been exhibited at the Heckscher Museum of Art. After starting her formal Art education in Illustration, she earned her BFA in Textile Design from the Rhode Island School of Design.  Working as a Senior Designer for a major women’s apparel retailer, she enjoyed a collaborative approach designing jewelry and accessories.  

 Dianna currently resides in Westchester with her husband and two young children. Always visiting her hometown, she is consistently in awe of the beautiful town she was so fortunate to grow up in. She continues to work as a freelance jewelry designer and as a TA in a local school as she pursues becoming an Art educator.  

Her passion for camping, hiking and enjoying the outdoors with her family is a driving force behind the inspiration for her work. Being home from the pandemic, she found painting and drawing again as a creative outlet, re-igniting her passion to push herself as an artist. She is active in the Northport Arts Council in Northport, NY and the Carriage Barn Arts Center in New Canaan, CT.  

 Dianna’s work connects with nature, observing it through an ethereal, dreamlike lens as the core of all of her pieces. Her paintings and fine art prints featuring landscapes, terrain and flora create a transcendent, soft textural moment that you can not only see, but ultimately feel. Using a mix of watercolor, acrylic and oil pastel she creates texture, color, and detail to create work that evokes a transcendental world of blurred landscapes and natural elements. She employs a layered approach to her paintings by building up color and details to create these representational moments in time.  

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