Dianna Cates Dunn

Dianna Cates Dunn has lived for many years in southern Colorado. She is predominantly a painter who utilizes oil, acrylic and mixed media. Starting her artistic career as a visual artist, Dianna had lengthy affairs with both music and theatre, graduating from Weber University with a theatre design degree. She worked as a theatre consultant, Bed and Breakfast owner and interior designer before pursuing a full-time painting career in 1999. Primarily known in the past for her abstract paintings, Dunn's discovery of her 'artist muse' in 2014 led her not only to a new style of painting but to the writing and illustration of a book about this life changing period in her life.

The recipient of many awards, TOSCA Magazines 2015 Colorado Artist of the Year and the Founders Award from the Colorado Watermedia Society. Her works have also been featured in “The Art of Layering: Making Connections”, “American Art Collection

**The Truths of Tula-A Muse and Her Artist is the winner of the prestigious Ben Franklin Award for best gift books of 2017 (Silver)

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In 2020, the inspirational card deck 'The Wisdom of Tula', written by author Karen Stuth and illustrated by Dianna was released to critical and popular acclaim. Forty-four original paintings inspired by Tula have been utilized in the deck. It, too, is available here on Amazon.