An abstract approach to a colorful garden along a walking path on a sunny day.

Garden Dreams

A still life, including two pots, one is pouring.  The painting is a study in shapes and color.

pouring tea pot

A black on white (sumi-e ink with bamboo brush strokes) painting of a young man holding a rabbit   In his arms and feeding it. 

Madhav Feeding Angel Her Medicine 

A mixed media painting of an eye emerging out of turbulent waters, with real fall leaves surrounding it, representing/creating an image like a hurricane.

Eye of the Storm

An abstract landscape with large irregular forms in bright orange and pale pink on black foreground. 

Actionredaction

Oil painting on panel.  Abstract painting with a blue background representing sky or infinite space and a flying/floating orange and white organic saucer like objects.

Leaving -3 

Oil painting of a barn in winter with trees

Winter Barn

Looking down on a brown lab dog. His nose and eyes are very prominent. 

My Best Friend

Peonies

Ink painting of a 1968 Harley Davidson Sportster motorcycle. Black and white image, with a red chop in the upper right hand corner, black initial S in the lower right.

68 HD Sportster

An abstract painting with organic shapes overlapped in hues of glowing oranges, vibrant yellows, deep crimson, earthy brown, and shades of blue. The work reflects an abstract landscape, tumultuous colors and shapes grieving the loss of nature in tribute to the recent wildfires in the west.

"And So It Burns: A Landscape"

A closeup watercolor painting of a warm golden sunflower with a background of colorful swirls.

Sunflower 

A stylistic portrait of a woman dressed in gold and red, accompanied by a background full of golden shapes and ornamentation. 

Lavish Woman

Abstracted symbolic tree in green outline and symbolic landscape elements in blue and green in the foreground hovering above a blue, yellow and green field/background.

The Tree

A painting of white winter wind, on northern lights. Thin golden lines, intertwined in the sky and wind, foresee the beginning of dawn. 

White wind

A painting of two elephants nuzzling together. The picture is a close up, side view of the pair: one eye of each can be see. The tusk of the one of the left is also visible along with part of the ear of the elephant on the right. Small bits of blue background appear in the bottom corners. 

Pair of Phants

an expressionistic oil bar drawing of three pears

three pears

A semi-nude woman leaning back in a chair in front of a window, the light falls across the figure creating a strong contrast of light and shadow

Seated Woman at Window

A painting of splashes of acrylic paint "blobs", watercolor drip paint, finished with a coat of clear resin. With all the turbulence surrounding us, I believe the future is bright and wonderful.

The Future Is Bright

A figure that transitions from foot to leg to boot to shirt to head. The setting is blue and pink flowers on a tapestry background

Protean Figure

One continuous thin line navigates across the entire work using only 90 degree angles and creating hundreds of overlapping box shapes, all varying in size and proportion; the line quality varies and appears hand painted.

Integration:  phthalo green

Seedless watermelon with a large wedge removed, on a neutral background, showing vivid deep pink flesh and a chartreuse green rind lashed longitudinally with dark green wavy stripes. A shadow on the right side emphasizes the curve of the cut fruit and grounds it in place on a flat surface.

Watermelon

A semblance of acrylic pieces to canvas resulting in 3D painting.

Burnt by the Sun

A mixed media collage in jewel tones of acrylic paint and stamped and print papers.  Two large orange butterflies fly above green foliage and variegated deep pink flowers.

Butterfly Garden

Dark blue, bright orange and black cloud like forms on mustard colored paper.

Trevon is a doofus

A painting of a black cat sitting on a colorful patterned rug.

Kit Kit

This painting is big on color, including organic forms in bright red, fuscia pink, lime green, dark navy blue, teal, forest green and sky blue. The organic forms are applied both horizontally and vertically in a complimentary, abstract way. Laying on top of these colors are six red, strong horizontal lines, one bright yellow vertical, and three striking fuscia vertical lines. Though this is an abstract painting, you can also imagine it as a landscape. The title is ’Three Moons,' which is taken from from the three medium-sized white circles in the center of the painting. There is also a white circle in the center along with two small open circles and many light blue circles on the lower, left hand corner. 

Three Moons

A painting of a California poppy: yellow petals including a center of orange with yellow stamens, sourounded by a background of shades of green foliage.

California Poppy

An abstract painting using strong primary colors along with black, white, and purple spiraling towards the middle of the piece. The blackened edges create a shadow that dissipates into a clear center point. 

Time

Colorful landscape of trees with bright yellow morning sunlight shining through the negative spaces.

Morning Light

A yellow sunrise with blue skies and black cattails and geese flying in the foreground. 

Garden Dreams, 2020

Diane Lavin