From earliest days on my grandparents' farm in Massachusetts, I have felt an affinity for animals. I started drawing at 5 years old and continued throughout childhood with a highlight being Saturday classes at the Worcester Art Museum. There I learned to mix browns so that I could paint a golden palomino horse; I was hooked on the magic of color. After studying art at Connecticut College and graduate school at the Philadelphia College of Art , I found myself caught in an abstract impressionism, color field and pop art era when I wanted to do representational art. Fortunately Gerald Gooch became my mentor, a master draftsman and lithographer. Those were happy years teaching painting, drawing, and lithography at several community colleges. After years of raising a family and caring for aging parents, I am free to pursue my passion for painting full time. I've been fortunate to learn from Bob Gerbracht in weekly workshop 2004-2008 and in workshops with Carolyn Anderson, Daniel Gerhartz,Huihan Liu, David Leffel, Randall Sexton, Quang Ho, and Jove Wang. With the support of my wonderful husband Ken, I am painting full time. There is a fire in me to make art!
AWARDS
Honorable Mention, Salon International 2012, Greenhouse Gallery of fine Art, San Antonio, Texas, April 2012
Honorable Mention, Southwest Art, Annual Artistic Excellence Competition, December 2011 issue
Award of Excellence, 2011 Oil Painters of America Western Regional Exhibition, Lee Youngman Galleries, Calistoga, California
Fine Print Art award, 2011 American Plains Artists National Exhibition, New Mexico Ranch Heritage Museum, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Honorable Mention, 2011 Portrait Society of America Members Only Competition
Honorable Mention, 27th Annual Art Competition, the Artist's Magazine, December 2010 issue
Award of Excellence, 2010 Art of the the Plains, Great Plains Art Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska
Honorable Mention, Nineteenth Annual Oil Painters of American National Exhibition, Legacy Gallery, Scottsdale 2010
Featured in KQED half-hour television program, "Portfolio: Daria Niebling, Bay Area Artist" 1979
COLLECTIONS
" Solitary Journey" one in a series of pastel paintings in the collection of the Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
"Solitary Journey" one in the series of pastel paintings in the private collection of curator, San Francisco Museum of Art
"LuLu La France" in the private collection of curator of drawings, Minnesota Museum of American Art
EXHIBITIONS
2012 Exhibitions
The Russell: Sale to benefit the C.M. Russell Museum, Great Falls, Montana, March 2012
Salon International 2012, Greenhouse Gallery of Fine Art, San Antonio, Texas, April 2012
2012 American Plains Artists Exhibition, September 2012)
2011 Exhibitions
American Impressionist Society National Exhibition, Mountainsong Galleries, Carmel, California, October 2011
Oil Painters of America Western Regional Exhibition, Lee Youngman Galleries, Calistoga, California, October 2011
27th Annual American Plains Artists National Exhibition, New Mexico Ranch Heritage Museum, Las Cruces, New Mexico, September 2011
Salon International 2011, Greenhouse Gallery of Fine Art, San Anonio, Texas, April 2011
Scottsdale Salon of Fine Art, Legacy Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, April 2011
Portrait Society of America Members Only Competition, January 2011
2010 Exhibitions
Oil Painters of America Western Regional Exhibition, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, October 2010
Art of the Plains, Great Plains Art Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska, October 20110
Nineteenth Annual Oil Panters of America National Exhibition, Legacy Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, April 2010
Education
Connecticut College, BA, Bell Prize in Art
Philadelphia College of Art, MA
Professional Memberships
American Impressionist Society, California Art Club, California Society of Printmakers, Carmel Art Association, Oil Painters of America, Portrait Society of America
