Diana Werts traces her relationship with the land and agriculture to her grandparents, who had a truck farm at the edge of her home town of Wichita, Kansas. She became immersed in the back-to-the-land movement during college days in the ‘70s and ‘80s at nearby Emporia State University, where studies in art and psychology led to an MA in painting. She returned to Wichita and later to Kansas City to pursue work as an artist, teacher and musician while raising a family. She and her husband conducted artist-in-residencies in small towns throughout Kansas, something that left a lasting impression. Meanwhile, her lifetime habit of gardening lead her to studies of natural ecosystems, which in turn influenced her approach to painting. Regular trips to the prairie in search of images from nature lead her back to the Flint Hills, near her alma mater. This region contains the largest surviving segment of the tallgrass prairie, an ecosystem dating back at least 13,000 years. She now makes her home in the heart of those Flint Hills in the town of Matfield Green, population 49. She has work in private and public collections throughout the region, and shows at her studio and at SNW Gallery in Manhattan, Kansas.
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