Cookstown library displays watercolour work of local artist
Artist Diana Di Giacopo-Robinson has her family to thank for getting back into painting.
“I’ve been an artist since I was a kid,” she said. “My earliest childhood memories are of a desire to paint and draw.”
Now, her water-themed paintings captured on a family trip to Innisfil Beach Park are featured at the Cookstown branch of the Innisfil ideaLAB and Library.
“I’m interested in (the) reflection colours of water,” she said. “I was in love with blue and am still attracted to that colour.”
Displaying her work is an unexpected perk for the Alliston resident, who just picked up her brush a few years ago.
Di Giacopo-Robinson graduated from the fine arts program at York University and worked on canvas and sculpture pieces for a few years, before life got in the way and she put down her brush.
But her husband recently changed careers and encouraged her to return to her first passion.
“He freed up time to watch the kids and I started working vigorously, making one larger-sized canvas a month.”
She is now a member of the South Simcoe Arts Council, adding at least 30 new paintings to her collection — some reflecting time spent with her family.
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