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Diana Stover was born in San Fernando, California. She grew up primarily in the Los Angeles area amidst the highly colorful art of the sixties. She has lived briefly in Seattle, Frankfurt, Germany, and Point Richmond, California. She moved to Utah in 1969 and has become a transplanted native. The beautiful Utah landscape has heavily influenced her art, providing her with limitless subjects to paint. She enjoys traveling the back roads, finding reference for her work. Diana has been involved in art all her life and did arts and crafts with her mother as a child. She loved her art classes in junior high and high school. Beginning in 1978, she spent twenty-two years in a career of creating original art dolls and teddy bears, winning numerous awards at various local, regional and national doll shows. She had the prestigious commission of creating the souvenir doll for two local doll conventions and two regional doll conventions. She showed at the World Toy Fair in New York City in 1999 and 2000. Then major life changes prompted her to retire from doll making and take up pastel, a medium that had been a back-burner favorite since she was a child. She has studied pastel extensively under Colleen Howe, a well-known Utah pastel landscape artist and instructor. She enjoys painting portraits, “people scenes” and other figurative work. Her love of camping and the outdoors has made landscapes another favorite.
Diana currently resides in Holladay, UT under the shadow of Mount Olympus. “I can’t imagine living where there are no mountains,” she says. “I would be totally lost.”