Diana Buitrago is a portrait and landscape painter from Colombia, living and working in New York City and Jersey City.

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 has studied under artists Michael Grimaldi, Dan Thompson, Jon deMartin, Jacob Collins, and Colleen Barry. Diana's work has been widely recognized for its excellence. She is a three-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. She is currently a Core instructor at the Grand Central Atelier, part-time workshop instructor at the Art Students League of New York.

“My work can be categorized under the tradition of the Classical Realism, my main goal is to understand the complexity of drawing and painting of the human form as I strive to hold up the standard of excellent draftsmanship of the Baroque and XIX Century art. As I advance my career, 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.”

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Pintora Retratista y Paisajista colombiana, viviendo y trabajando en la ciudad de Nueva York y Nueva Jersey. Educada bajo el método clásico de estudio maestro/aprendiz. Instructora en las academias de Grand Central Atelier y Art Students League of New York.

“Mi trabajo pictórico puede ser enmarcado dentro de la tradición del Realismo Clásico. Mi mayor anhelo es comprender la complejidad del dibujo y la pintura de la figura humana y acercar mi trabajo a los estándares de excelencia técnica establecidos por la tradición artística del Barroco y Siglo XIX. A medida que mi carrera avanza, mi enfoque es seguir trabajando bajo la misma linea directa de los Maestros sin perder la contemporaneidad de la realidad en que vivo. El estudio de la naturaleza y el trabajo directo del modelo o paisaje en natural son clave en mi proceso de trabajo. Es la fuente inagotable de inspiración, estudio e investigación.”