Diane Bach is a Seattle-based artist who has been involved in art throughout her life.  Her dad was a successful and outstanding commercial artist, photographer, watercolorist and oil painter.  He won the Washington State Salmon Stamp Competition in 1991.  Her mom was a well-known potter in the field, who owned her own shop, and later turned to bronze sculpture. Her brother was a potter at one time, apprenticing under the well-known John Glick and taking after his mom.  Her other brother became a computer expert long before most were aware it would forever change our lives in ways we’d never imagine.  His talented daughter, Annie, carries on the family art gene as a freelance character game artist and now writes children’s books.

Diane grew up in a time when there were no computers to while away the hours.  When Diane’s dad was off at work and her mom was downstairs on the pottery wheel, Diane was in her room drawing and creating.

Diane says, “You learned early how to express yourself creatively in those days.”  As a youngster, she was privileged to have parents who sent her to summer art camp.  Diane feels she was fortunate at an early age to have had the opportunity to learn her unique form of expression through her art creations.

For many years, Diane developed her talents in music where she learned piano and pipe organ, studying under the wonderful, renown, late Dr. Ray Ferguson who was a professor at the Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.  And at  age 16 was chosen to play piano at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan.

Diane attended the accredited College for Creative Study (CCS) formerly known as the Detroit Society of Arts & Crafts located in the Cultural & New Center of Detroit MI and first studied weaving on a floor loom under well known Urban Jupena, instructor.  For years she wove and stuffed sculptural weavings for textural wall art. 

Landscape watercoloring eventually became Diane’s second love and now organic three dimensional mixed media has taken a front seat to all other mediums.