• Diane O'Leary

  • 3 Perches of Tillamook Bay

  • Mixed Media
  • 13.50" x 25.50"
  • Animal
  • The fish are portrayed using the direct method of Gyokatu (see below). The rest of the image is painted in acrylics.
    Black wood frame with gold accent.

    About the artist:
    Native American multimedia artist (1939-2013). Studied art in 1961 and 1967 in Taos, NM under Eric Gibberd and Emil Bisttram. Studied lithography in LA in early 1970s under Linton Kistler. Moved to Garibaldi , OR in 1989 then later to Newport. She first gained renown for her paintings of female native figures. Later, she conducted environmental research on Oregon’s Tillamook Bay for a congressional program and was inspired to use the Japanese technique of Gyotaku to create a series of “anatomically faithful” collages (“The Living Waters of Tillamook Bay”) that were exhibited in 2005 at The Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport in an effort to advocate for wetland protection. Her work is in the collection of Guggenheim Museum in NY, the Heard Museum in Phoenix, the National Estuary Program offices in Washington, D.C. among others.

    The technique of Gyotaku (Japanese from gyo "fish" + taku "rubbing") is a traditional form of Japanese fish printing, dating from the mid 1800s, a form of nature printing used by fishermen to record their catches. The fish is placed on a flat surface and is painted on one side with sumi ink or watercolor. Then, a piece of rice paper is carefully applied on top of the fish and then pulled off with a mirror image of the fish having been created on the substrate.
  • $350