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About
Diane Hawley
Tulips for Esther
This painting is about a passing moment, tulips caught in sunlight, just as they are, before they change. The light moves, the flowers move, and the moment disappears almost as soon as it’s noticed.
I’m interested in that brief window of time when everything feels quietly right. When you pause long enough to see the color, the shape, the way light rests on a surface, and you realize the moment won’t last.
Tulips for Esther is about presence. About paying attention before the light shifts, before the flowers open or fade; being at the right place at the right time. It’s a reminder that there is meaning in noticing and that sometimes the grace is simply being there while the moment passes.
Kim Minju
Marimo, Quiet Continuum No.1
For me, the process of layering and erasing—using hanji, mineral pigments, and acrylic—is not about creating a surface, but about accumulating time.
Marimo, carrying a thousand years and living through division, is a symbol of life that does not disappear, even within the flow.
Through this small presence, I want to offer the viewer quiet rest and calm—along with the hope to breathe again.
40” x 40”
Oil on linen
Diane Hawley is a Canadian-American fine artist with over 50 years of experience in drawing and painting, specializing in oil-based photorealism and impressionist works. Her art is inspired by still life, landscapes, interiors, florals, and her travels.
A graduate of Concordia University in Montreal with a degree in Studio Art and a minor in Art History, Diane has exhibited in cities including Montreal, Quebec City, St. Lambert, Vancouver, and Los Angeles. She began painting commissioned works at the age of 15—one of which was gifted to a Member of Parliament and formerly displayed in the Parliament of Canada in Ottawa.
Her lifelong passion for creativity also extends to illustration and art direction. After raising five children, Diane returned to oil painting with renewed focus and spiritual depth, creating work that explores themes of light, nature, gratitude, and human connection.
Marimo, Quiet Continuum No.1
2026
Mineral pigments on Hanji ( Korean traditional paper)
64 1/5 × 51 1/5 in
US$38,000
Ming (Minju Kim) is a contemporary artist who holds an MFA in Oriental Painting and has completed doctoral coursework in Horticultural Life Science. With over forty years of artistic practice, she continues to expand the depth and language of painting through a rigorously accumulated process.
Born in Korea and currently based in Georgia, USA, she reinterprets the structure of nature and life through a painterly lens, grounded in the material order and spiritual sensibility of East Asian painting traditions.
For Ming, what matters is not what is simply seen, but what remains. Through the repeated act of layering and erasure using hanji (Korean mulberry paper), mineral pigments, and acrylic, her surfaces become an accumulation of time—forming a quiet, self-contained world.
At the center of this world is Marimo, a symbol of continuity and cyclical life that the artist has explored for years. Recognized as the world’s first and only artist to develop Marimo as a sustained philosophical and visual motif, Ming reveals how life endures and continues to breathe within an immense flow. Her paintings are quiet yet resilient—where subtle vibrations emerge through layered strata, holding the viewer in stillness and expanding into a philosophical universe she calls Quiet Continuum.
“I have worked for a long time within the depth and order of East Asian painting materials.
For me, the process of layering and erasing—using hanji, mineral pigments, and acrylic—is not about creating a surface, but about accumulating time.
Marimo, carrying a thousand years and living through division, is a symbol of life that does not disappear, even within the flow.
Through this small presence, I want to offer the viewer quiet rest and calm—along with the hope to breathe again.”