Diana Dube
Bio
Diana Dube (she/they) is the illustrator of Mindful Coloring: Calming the Mind Through Art, an adult coloring book published by WW Norton. The book contains 100 hand-drawn illustrations, and an introduction by groundbreaking neuropsychiatrist and New York Times
best-selling author Dr. Daniel J. Siegel. Diana has illustrated books on the topics of neuroscience, writing, and therapy. In addition, she has fulfilled commissions for wedding invitations and special events. Diana counts
Maurice Sendak, Alison Bechdel, Ellen Forney, Quentin Blake, and Ruth Asawa among her inspirations.
She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Wellesley College, and a Master’s degree in the Science of Education (MS.Ed.) from Bank Street College Graduate School of Education. Diana is also an Urban Naturalist, with a certificate from the New York Botanical Garden. When she’s not drawing, Diana is working as an early childhood educator or
photographing plants and insects in Central Park.
Artist Statement
The “Omicron Drawings” began as a response to the Omicron wave of the COVID pandemic in December 2021. In an attempt to ground myself in the present moment and soothe my frayed nervous system, I committed myself to a daily drawing practice. These drawings are created freehand with pen and ink without any drafting or preliminary sketches, and thus represent an exercise in both control (of movement) and surrender (to myriad unpredictable outcomes). My experience of this tension—between focused physical control and willing psychological surrender—evokes a “flow” state, in which I am completely absorbed in the process of creation. What is most exciting about these drawings is that this “flow” is manifest in the dynamic movement of the work itself and is also transferred to the viewer, who may experience the work as both visually engaging and psychically soothing.
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