Among Dianne’s passions about painting and teaching painting is how composing principles can expand creative freedom if the artist transcends the “rule” idea and instead, transforms the principle into a tool that opens creative doors.  In 1435, Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472),  provided the first theory of what we now call linear perspective in his book, On Painting.  From that time forward, linear perspective is associated with mathematical rules rather than a potential for creative exploring.  Dianne’s intention is to reverse that tendency.

Among contemporary paintings in which one-point perspective is adroitly used, check out Randall Sexton’s Blend .  Dianne makes a fun use of the principle  in her painting, Like White Butterflies.