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Local oil painter to give lesson at the Walpole Library

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Paint great portraits in oils after learning techniques from a master artist.

Dianne Panarelli Miller, a Copley Master and winner of many awards, who has been painting for more than 35 years, will share some of her expertise at no charge, thanks to the Friends of the Walpole Public Library.

“Di” will give her oil portrait demonstration starting at 7:00 p.m. on Monday evening, January 11, in the Community Room at the Walpole Public Library. All are welcome. This is a rare opportunity to watch and learn from a professional artist.

Dianne Panarelli Miller is a world-renowned artist painting in Bermuda, France, and Italy. She is an award-winning Boston-based “Plein Air Painter” of color and light and is a signature member of the New England Plein Air Painters and is a Copley Master.

Her approach combines the classic atelier training of the Boston School, with a mastery of technique of her own personal style expressed through the harmony of color and design. The original Boston School way of painting seeks to combine the truth of impressionist color with good drawing, sound composition, and skillful paint handling.

Its leading exponents included Edmund Tarbell, Frank Benson, William Paxton, Joseph Decamp, Philip Hale, R.H. Ives Gammell. Gammell was a turn of the century Boston Museum School pupil of the first three men and later consulted with Paxton.

Robert Douglas Hunter and Robert Cormier (with whom Miller studied) were students of Gammell. David Lowery and Robert Moore, also students of Gammell, rounded off her studies.

Never one to take the easy way out, Dianne Panarelli Miller studied art for 10 years in college, private classes, and ateliers, and has painted tirelessly for 35 more years to develop her craft. Not wanting to paint like anyone else, she worked hard to paint in her own voice from life and not photographs. Enduring long hours, bartending for 17 years and bringing up her daughter, Dianne still managed to paint full time.

Dianne grew up in Braintree and after graduating Braintree High, she received a diploma at Vesper George College of Art. There she met and later studied intensively with Robert Cormier until she began at the R. H. Ives Gammel Atelier established by Cormier and Robert Douglas Hunter in Gammel’s honor. She studied the traditional way to paint, in the Boston Tradition, full time year round for five years.

David Lowery and Robert Moore were also included in the roster of impressive teachers. While studying at the Atelier and being surrounded by the art galleries of Newbury Street and museums of Boston, she discovered the type of artist she wanted to be and began her quest to be one.

Dianne has received many awards locally and nationally in the 35 years she has been painting and is represented in many fine galleries as well as in hundreds of private collections. Recently, her oil painting “Blue” was accepted to the National Endowment show in Naples Florida.

She is well known on the South Shore and is a signature member of the New England Plein Air Painters and has the distinguished honor to be awarded “Copley Master” at the Copley Society in Boston. She is also a member of the Portrait Society of America and Oil Painters of America.

Her work can be seen all over the country. Her versatile style allows her to capture her subjects with sensitivity and detail. She is comfortable doing portraits and landscapes as well as murals and cityscapes. Painting full time, she accepts the challenges each subject brings with excitement and vitality.

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