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••••• Ellen Jean Diederich, TWSA, RRWS, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art and a Bachelor of Art in Art Education from Minnesota State University Moorhead. She lives in Fargo, North Dakota, where she has painted professionally since 1985 and teaches watercolor workshops. Diederich is an award-winning artist whose paintings have been shown in numerous national and international juried exhibitions. She has published paintings in Creative Watercolor: the step-by-step guide and showcase, Best of Watercolor Painting Composition, and Best of Watercolor 3. Her company Givinity Press publishes giclée reproductions, a note-card line, and her Ben Franklin Award-winning children’s book Where’s Petunia? Go to her website - www.givinity.com - to learn more about the artist/author or her new book Your Attitude About Art available in July 2006. Dividing her childhood years between living in the city of Wayzata, MN to a small Midwest farm in Staples, MN, it is little wonder the watercolor creations of Ellen Jean Diederich express so intuitively the urban/rural spirit of her divergent youthful lifestyle. This made the HERD ABOUT THE PRAIRIE project particularly fun. "I had gone out to a ranch and taken pictures of Bison from the back of a pick-up. The strength of the Bison was amplified in my mind when I saw a bull gently rub his head on the corner of the pick-up. His horn hooked onto the head-light, breaking it without any effort. I used many of my experiments on this life-size replica that took up much space in my studio for several months. “Brutus” challenged my endurance with paint." The artistry and imagination of Ellen Jean Diederich springs from a gifted palette and wanders seamlessly from the poignant and the adorned, to soft, comforting fields of dreams, rococo settings… and, on occasion, to delightful whimsical edges. Her creations suggest a timeless reflection of essential impressions…honed by her extensive travels, and tempered by a sense of visualization that is at once unburdened, garden-fresh, and real.
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