About.
Stefanie Diers is an American contemporary artist from Long Island, New York. Her personal work examines human experience and consciousness through her portrayal of a wide array of subject matter, often depicting themes of loss, love, solitude, deep emotional states, or the comforts of life.
She is fascinated by the concept of the soul and its relation to the body, how our environments can shape us so substantially, and how personal experience translates to our lives, relationships and overall world. Through her work, she explores our instinctual levels of human need, including interrelation, security, higher purpose, and love. As well as coming to terms with the natural cycles of life - loneliness, loss, and death.
“Utilizing painting and drawing as a tool to delve more profoundly into the human experience, I explore my own emotions, fears, desires, thoughts and struggles, in hopes that the process and result will bring forth introspection not only for myself, but create space as well for viewers to reflect on their own inner workings.”
Commissions:
Stefanie creates a diverse range of subjects for both private and commercial clients, taking care to infuse energy and elegance into each piece. She is able to work with a wide variety of materials and art styles to fit the needs of each project.
I enjoy working from both reference and imagination, creating from the scope of realistic subjects such as portraits and landscapes, to more imaginative drawings and illustrations. My favorite way to work is slightly expressive and impressionistic; Creating movement and energy within each piece, while infusing vibrating colors and allowing luminosity to enter through layers.
To inquire about a commission or upcoming project, please contact Stefanie by email, or through the contact form listed in the menu above.
I am a maker, a thinker, a feeler. A self expressionist.
I create what speaks to my soul, and what allows my soul to speak.
I create to create, I create to express.
Subject matter and the tools I use aren’t important to me, I’ve found I tend to use each form of media in similar ways. Allowing me to bounce between with all different types of materials and subjects freely.
I am, at my core, a free spirit.
I work with a wide array of tools and subjects, utilizing them all as forms of self expression.
Subjects can range from realistic self portraiture and depictions of nature, to more whimsical scenes of imagined worlds, or cozy animal illustrations.
Sometimes my work can even appear more conceptual or abstract.
But each connects to my soul in different ways, and speaks of different thoughts and emotions.
I use all different forms of paint - watercolors, gouache, acrylic and oils. I draw with charcoals, inks, graphite and colored pencil. I also create many works digitally, and enjoy using my iPad as a sort of digital sketchbook. I play around with design here as well and find a sort of comfort in its simplicity and structure.
In all of my works I enjoy playing with color, line and form, contrast, luminosity, texture, and expressive movement. Sometimes I like to work simply, minimally.
Apart from visual art, I enjoy other forms of artistic expression. I write a lot of poetry, and also write just to write. Sometimes I create music (although I’m not very good), its a fun side hobby for me and I find it speaks to me personally and lights up different parts of my brain. I take photos everywhere I go. I take videos. I put clips together and edit them into longer form video, also just for fun. Every now and then I photograph a collection self portraits, just because.
I’ve taken classes in ceramics and printmaking, both of which I love and still use for little projects here and there, though not nearly enough. And I’m certainly no expert. But I enjoy making things for friends, some of these I even share on YouTube.
When it comes to commissions, I’ve been hired to create custom pieces to be used on the sets of various commercials, including Johnnie Walker and Interview with the Vampire. As well as the art used in a 2023 independent short film, Forgive. I continually design and create product labels for a small candle business, co-owned by my friend and myself. And since 2013 I have created many many pairs of custom hand-painted shoes for clients on Etsy. Recently, I’ve begun to create expressive wedding portraits for various friends and loved ones, which I find to be very unique!
And so my true passion doesn’t necessarily lie in one form/subject or another, but rather in the act of creation and expression itself.
It lies in capturing emotion and thought, and the beauty of the world.
I feel a lot of things, I think a lot of things, and art in all forms has allowed for me to channel these aspects of myself into physical things for the world, that hopefully others can benefit from. I am extremely grateful to have had the privilege of learning to create at such a young age. It has helped me all throughout my life.
Thank you so much for taking time to be here. I hope that you can find something in all of this mess that speaks to parts of you, too.