Diane Tesler began her painting career in Hawaii, drawn to the quality of the light and a compelling subject: the abandoned cars scattered around the island.  These discoveries –the power of light to reveal form, and the beauty of the discarded –have remained a constant in her work ever since.  

After relocating to Virginia, Diane joined the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria where she is a painting instructor at the Art League School.

She now divides her year between studios in Alexandria and Kewanna, Indiana, where she has purchased and begun to restore a house and an 1889 Odd Fellows lodge hall, using both as studios and subjects for her paintings.

Educated at Antioch College in Ohio, Tesler most recently had a one-person exhibition at the Midwest Museum of American Art as well as the Evansville (IN) Museum of Arts and Science. Her work is in the collection of MCI, Bristol Meyers Squibb Corporation, The National Institutes of Health, and American General Finance.