Diane Rosen

Diane Rosen, a New York-based artist and author of numerous articles on creativity theory and practice, studied in Paris at l’École des Beaux-Arts on a French Government painting Fellowship and in New York at the Art Students League and Columbia University. For distinguished accomplishment in the pastel medium, she holds the elected title of Master Pastelist in the Pastel Society of America. Her multiple award-winning paintings have been exhibited widely including at the historic National Arts Club in NYC, The Butler Institute of American Art Museum, OH, and The Salmagundi Club, NYC, and have been featured in numerous publications such as Pastel Journal; American Artist Magazine; Pure Color: The Best of Pastel; Manhattan Arts; and the Deutsche PastellGesellschaft 2025 Spring Newsletter. Rosen's work is in collections in the US, France, England and Germany. 

STATEMENT

Through inscapes of emotion my figurative work explores women’s sense of self in the world, particularly regarding authentic agency. What interests me is to convey aspects or moments of those psychological-emotional journeys, depicted in intentionally ambiguous contexts: liminal zones between reason and intuition, order and chaos, visible and hidden. Here, the self is galvanized through an often turbulent yet ultimately transformative process of emergence into power.