Diana Lynn Thompson

©  Diana Lynn Thompson, Spill (pods) 2006. Linen thread, found objects, detail of gallery installation 17' 8" h x 11'
 

Artist Diana Lynn Thompson of Salt Spring Island uses objects from nature collected in enormous quantities to produce artworks that are both visually dramatic and immediately reflective of the human-nature relationship. Thompson utilises the diversity and sensuousness of the natural world in ways that balance human agendas. She lessens the split between human and nature by integrating both into her work.

Thompson has exhibited widely across North America and elsewhere, including a semi-permanent stone piece, Meander, in Austria. Built in a disturbed area near a large dam, Thompson’s Meander appears as a discreet handwritten mark on a scraped and scoured basin.

In an artist’s statement Thompson writes, “In all my work, before anything else, my intention is to do no harm. The art is in the care, reverence and attention I give to all that surrounds me.”

Thompson created Spill, a site-specific work for the original show at the Herndon Gallery, documented in this online exhibit.

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