DIANE DILL WEBB BIOGRAPHY
One of the great influences in Diane Dill Webb’s early life was her grandmother’s empty trash can.  This of course was due to the skillful utilization by her grandmother of what most people deemed, “garbage.” What could not be composted or fed to neighborhood pets was to be used in the household at least one more time.  Jars, tin cans or empty toilet paper rolls would show up in the most unlikely places.  Diane ​jokes that her grandmother could have invented the meaning of “going green.”  

In the early 90’s, when her beloved grandmother passed, Diane was given the task of disposing of her furniture.  Diane’s ability as a self taught artist and a desire to honor her grandmother’s legacy led her to a new passion.  She began to paint each vintage piece in colorful patterns adding a bit of whimsy.  This, she knew, would have made her grandmother happy.  Thus began her adventure of acquiring pieces from yard sales or even road sides to give them another life.  Soon her work was in galleries in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
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Now her work encompasses more than giving a new face to vintage pieces.  Pulling from the past and honoring the future, she views her cast off “garbage,” as a challenge. An ability to disassociate from the article’s original intention frees her to observe its shape, color and how it can be reconnected in a harmonious arrangement of matter to reclaim its place in the universe as art.

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