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Dietlind Vander Schaaf

Dietlind Vander Schaaf describes her work as an attempt to render temporary, fleeting moments of beauty, balance, and stillness visible; the place where the inner landscape and the outer landscape meet. Through texture, pattern, mark making, and color, she conveys an emotional tone of calm-centeredness. There is a strong narrative underpinning present. Each painting is a poem of sorts. Dietlind holds an MFA from the University of San Francisco and an MA from the University of Southern Maine. She has exhibited at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Conrad Wilde Gallery, The Fuller Craft Museum, and On Center Gallery, among others, and been featured in Maine Home + Design, Decor Maine, Artscope, UPPERCASE, and Downeast magazines. She is represented by Portland Art Gallery.