Dyana Hesson American

Botanical artist Dyana Hesson loves a good adventure. She was born and raised in the gold country of Northern California. As a kid, she was always happiest exploring outdoors and rarely settled down to read a book all the way through.

When Dyana’s father gave her his old 35 mm film camera in elementary school, her skinned knees and grass-stained clothes gave way to a quiet appreciation of aesthetic beauty. She was interested in the landscape, but more than just scenic vistas. At close range, the hues and contours of flowers and plants caught her eye. Some of the first things she photographed were the succulents growing in her mother’s garden.

A hard worker but a struggling student, Hesson found her gift of painting in an art class in college. She changed her major and studied art at Arizona State University where she developed her style of applying thin layers of oil paint with very little texture. After graduating with honors, Dyana combined her newly found skills with the work ethic of her childhood, and soon art collectors eagerly invested in her radiant paintings. Her work is collected worldwide and her series, True Blue Arizona, was featured in Arizona Highways Magazine in March 2020. Dyana is a Master of the Southwest award winner and a Master Signature member of American Women Artists.

Dyana lives in Mesa, Arizona, with her husband Randy, daughter Sydney and Jack Russell terrier, Beau. She has a case of incurable wanderlust, and a love affair with God’s creation.

"It is a privilege and pleasure to be a fine artist in today's world. It is a pleasure because I get to wake every morning and do what I love and pour my soul into creating something beautiful. It is also a privilege because with creating comes responsibility. My desire is to create a safe place where a viewer’s eyes can land and rest for a while. It has been said that the only two things that can pierce our hearts are beauty and affliction, and if this is so, we need a measure of beauty in our lives in equal proportion to our affliction. My unspoken agreement with my collectors and fans is that I will always bring my very best to you. I will work hard to bring a measure of beauty to your world with all the ability God has given me."

Dyana’s latest book, "The Art of Wildflowers," was recently published by Arizona Highways. You can see more of her work at Bonner David galleries in Scottsdale and New York.