By Tracy Weaver
with photography by Bernard Clark
If anyone is living the life they’ve always felt called to live, it’s Diane Black. The Kingston artist, known for her paintings, drawings and especially the expressive, character-driven clay sculptures she brings to life, is doing exactly what she herself was created to do.
“Is there anything about me that isn’t art?” she quips with a laugh while chatting in her Barrie Street art studio.
Diane’s affinity for creating came naturally, with a mom a career painter and a physician dad who loved photography.
When she was one, her family moved to Baie Verte, Newfoundland, from Terrace, British Columbia. “My dad was going to do a year with the United Church hospitals, and we ended up staying for 16 years.”
As a child, the middle of three children, Diane “always wanted to make things.” In addition to her love for drawing, painting and playing with Play-Doh, “I would make things out of stuff I found in the woods,” she says. “And there was a cupboard in our family home that was just full of things we could make other things with.” She even made books, writing the content, drawing the pictures and putting them together. . . .
