Diana Ahrens
Diana’s artwork has been called tantalizing and seductive. Diana’s work is a direct reflection of herself as the artist and embodies romance, love, and beauty, with a twist of lightheartedness.
Her brilliant colors and unique artistic technique have awarded her distinction as a truly innovative artist. Diana’s work has been seen in the Whitney Museum of Art in New York and has been sold across the country and internationally.
Diana Ahrens began her artistic career in 1979 painting aerial photography in Toledo, Ohio. Later, in 1991, she apprenticed as a stain glass artist at Cristallo Glass Studio in Toledo. After her apprenticeship there, she studied with a 5th generation glass master from Germany.
She designed and built custom stain glass windows and other works, both original and antique while at the Cristallo Studio. In 1994 Diana created a glass mosaic dining tabletop for the Andy Warhol "Art for Campbell Soup" contest. Diana’s piece was later displayed in the Whitney.
In March of 1996 she and her husband moved to Reno, Nevada where her studio is presently located.
Her mixed media technique has been an evolution from high-end stained glass work, glass mosaic design, and painting in fine acrylics and hand-rolled pastels. Her artwork today consists of metal leaf and layer after layer of acrylic paint and pastels, followed with special cuts of stained glass and an extraordinary finish coat.
Look into each piece for the subtle shimmer in the underlying basecoats, the fine detail of the layers of pastels, and the sometimes deceiving three dimensional highlights of the hand cut stained glass.
