I am very proud to have been invited to participate in the NYC Watershed Art Project. As a New York City resident, I feel it is necessary to celebrate the beauty and promote the importance of the three watersheds that provide sustainability to our city. As a painter, my intention is to portray to the best of my ability through sketches and paintings, the natural environment and landscapes that inspired many other painters, engineers and architects of the past.
Diana C Buitrago bio
Diana Buitrago (b. 1986) is a highly accomplished portrait and landscape painter from Colombia, living and working in New York City and Jersey City, and teaching at the Grand Central Academy. Her extensive formal artistic training in the classical atelier method includes the four year program at the Art Students League, Artistic Anatomy coursework at Drexel University’s School of Medicine, and the four year Core Program at the Grand Central Atelier. She is a five-time Hudson River Fellow, an alumnus of the Château de La Napoule Residency, and has won prizes from the GCA, the ASL, and the Portrait Society of America, Certificate of Merit at Salmagundi Club. “My work can be categorized under the tradition of Classical Realism, and I aim to continue working under the tradition of the Old Masters while bringing my work to a contemporary reality. The study of nature is what keeps guiding my inspiration and sensibility. I will continue to work from life to capture moments of truth and to draw viewers in with their empathy.”