Diane Way was born in Montreal in 1958. She spent much of her youth “kicking around” that culturally rich city. For a young artist, Montreal was a wonderful source of artistic nourishment. As a child she spent summers at her family cottage at Lake Simcoe, north of Toronto. That’s where she first discovered doodle pads and filled the long summer days with sketching. Her passion for art had begun.Diane moved to Jasper in 1980 and discovered a wonderful contrast in scenery as well as lifestyle from the city life she had known. She then spent over two decades experiencing much of what the mountain culture had to offer. “I think of Jasper as my home town. I moved here when I was twenty-two. I raised my children in Jasper—the heart and soul of our family still rests in these mountains. The years in Jasper have been my formative years.” Jasper inspired her to put paint to paper and visually narrarate mountain life as it unfolded around her.

Diane tries to invite the viewer into her watercolor paintings and feel the ambiance of the scene by blending loose atmospheric washes with more representational renderings.

Some of her collections include:
Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge, Jasper, Ab.
Seton General Hospital, Jasper, Ab.
Municipality of Jasper, Ab.
Jasper Inn, Jasper, Ab.
Whistlers Inn, Jasper, Ab.
Various private collections worldwide