Diane Love
Diane Love has made creativity her career. Her many modes of expression include jewelry design, flower arranging, the design of decorative accessories, home fragrance, photography, painting and collage. Her favorite expression is “In Art nothing is off limits”.
She opened her eponymous shop on Madison Avenue in 1970 where she sold her designs; they were also available in Diane Love boutiques at Bloomingdales and other major retail stores nationwide. Her design work is in the permanent collection of Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Museum of Arts and Design. Her jewelry is included in Jewels of Fantasy, a book and museum exhibition about 20th century costume jewelry designers.
Diane wrote Créez Votre Style (Flammarion 1999), and Yes/No Design (Rizzoli 2000), to help people understand and express their unique sense of taste and style in their home decor. In her column for HomeStyle Magazine she interviewed and photographed the interiors of people who had created their own home design.
Ms. Love summarizes her current collage work this way: I’ve always loved making compositions of disparate things. Paper collage is my present focus; they are assemblages of my photographs, watercolors, drawings punctuated with gestural paint strokes and drawing.
Diane is a graduate of Barnard college and has studied art at The National Academy, The Art Students League, The New York Academy and The New York Studio School. Her other creative pursuits include working as an actor on stage and in film and as a cabaret singer. She has had many solo art shows; her most recent exhibition was in 2023 at a gallery in Tiburon, Ca. and in the group show, Women In Construction, at The Art Students League in 2024.
