INDUSTRIAL
Diana Creasy-Funk
Bio
Diana Creasy-Funk was born in Wainwright, Alberta in 1962. She moved to the Okanagan in 1986 and has been painting for as long as she can remember. What started out as simple pencil drawings in school, making sketches of friends, or capturing expressions from people in magazines, she evolved her fascination with human nature into a stunningly beautiful style of portraiture. Her work still has graphite areas showing, where she initially sketches her subject, but a watered-down painting technique fleshes out the work a little bit further, carefully bringing them to an ethereal place.
“Ask any artist and they will tell you that they paint because they have to…. It’s an unexplainable need.
I’m no different. I just paint…I have to.
What occurs on the canvas can and does change and evolve in a constant flow, but in the end it’s only just about the process,
the ideas, application, physical movements, problem solving, letting go and accepting.”
Curriculum Vitae
21 / Conrad West Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
18 / Sopa Fine Arts Gallery, Kelowna, B.C.
06 / 13 The Barn Gallery, Oyama, B.C.
02 / 11 Funktional / Kelowna, B.C.
03 / 04 Evans Gallery / Kelowna, B.C.
96 / 98 Laughing Moon Gallery / Kelowna, B.C.
96 / 97 Gagnon Gallery / Kelowna, B.C.
Fine Arts Diploma with *Distinction
Okanagan University College, 1996
2018 Sopa Fine Arts Gallery / Kelowna, B.C.
2022 Sopa Fine Arts / Sopa Salon, group show / Kelowna, B.C.
2022 Conrad West Gallery / Breathless, group show / Las Vegas, Nevada
2021 Sopa Fine Arts / Be My Guest, group show / Kelowna, B.C.
2021 Sopa Fine Arts / Into the Void…, group show / Kelowna, B.C.
2020 Sopa Fine Arts / Out of the Box, group show / Kelowna, B.C.
2020 Sopa Fine Arts / Selected Work, summer exhibition / Kelowna, B.C.
2019 Sopa Fine Arts / Gifted, group show / Kelowna, B.C.
2019 Sopa Fine Arts / All Hands on Deck, group show / Kelowna, B.C.
2018 Sopa Fine Arts / A Chorus of Color, group show / Kelowna, B.C.
2018 Lake Country Art Gallery members show – spring / Lake Country, B.C.
2017 Kelowna Art Gallery members exhibition – winter / Kelowna, B.C.
2017 Lake Country Art Gallery members show – fall / Lake Country, B.C.
2017 Lake Country Art Gallery members show – spring / Lake Country, B.C.
2016 Kelowna Art Gallery members exhibition – winter / Kelowna, B.C.
2010 U8 Event / Sopa Fine Arts Gallery / Kelowna, B.C.
2009 U8 Event / Sopa Fine Arts Gallery / Kelowna, B.C.
2008 U8 Event / Sopa Fine Arts Gallery / Kelowna, B.C.
2008 Kelowna Art Gallery members exhibition / Kelowna, B.C.
2007 U8 Event / Sopa Fine Arts Gallery / Kelowna, B.C.
2007 Kelowna Art Gallery members exhibition / Kelowna, B.C.
2006 Lake Country Art Walk / Lake Country, B.C.
2005 Lake Country Art Walk / Lake Country, B.C.
2005 Interior Savings “Centennial Celebrations”/ Kelowna, B.C.
1997 Business Training Institutes “Women and the Arts”/ Kelowna B.C.
1996 Laughing Moon Gallery “Women and the Arts”/ Kelowna, B.C.
1996 Mind Grind Cafe’/ Kelowna, B.C.
1996 Salmon Arm Public Art Gallery / Salmon Arm, B.C.
1996 Vernon Public Art Galley / Vernon, B.C.
1996 Art Gallery of the South Okanagan, Penticton, B.C.
1996 Okanagan University College Fine Arts Degree Exhibition / Kelowna, B.C.
1995 Okanagan Mainline Regional Arts Council Juried Art Show / Oliver, B.C.
*Fine Arts Degree Exhibition, 1996,
Traveling Exhibition*Okanagan Mainline Regional Arts Council Juried Art Show, 1995,
*Honorable Mention*Kelowna & District Arts Council Art Scholarship, 1991
*Helen Pitt Bursary, 1991
Lake Country 2008 Community Guide / Cover Art
Okanagan Art Works / 2010 July issue/ Online magazine
http://www.s2sartworks.com/ArtWorksMagazine.html
2010 Kelowna Art Gallery / Seeing Red & White Fundraiser / Kelowna, B.C.
2009 Kelowna Art Gallery / Seeing Red & White Fundraiser / Kelowna, B.C.
2008 Kelowna General Hospital, celebrity collaboration, Pediatric Unit / Kelowna, B.C.
2008 Kelowna Art Gallery / Seeing Red & White Fundraiser / Kelowna, B.C.
2005 African Gala for Ghana / charity auction / Kelowna, B.C.
2005 Interior Savings Credit Union, Strong Kids Campaign, YMCA / Kelowna
2003 Rotary Arts Centre, celebrity collaboration, cancer research / Kelowna
2003 Sindi Hawkins & Friends Charity Golf Classic Cancer Care / Kelowna, B.C.
2003 CNIB “art for kids”, charity auction / Kelowna, B.C.
2001 CNIB fundraiser / charity auction / Kelowna, B.C.
2000 CNIB fundraiser / charity auction / Kelowna, B.C.