MOOSE MOUNTAIN PROVINCIAL PARK - Diana Hume is one of the artists that will attend the Artist Colony of Moose Mountain Provincial Park from June 27-July 3.
Hume was born and raised in Creelman.
Later she would move to Regina where she would work as a lab technician.
Throughout the years, Hume always enjoyed art, but it was put on the backburner for a while.
In the 1990s, Hume would remarry. Pat, her husband, is a journalist-editor for CBC and has done the job for 35 years.
Hume would go to the University of Regina to receive her fine arts degree.
“It is not that I needed a degree,” said Hume. “But it gave me the basics to work with.”
Hume and Pat would move back to Creelman and move into the house that Hume was raised in. She loves it there with a big yard that is full of mature trees.
She opened a studio next to the post office in Creelman where she works on occasion.
Once she worked with chalk and pastels, but Hume changed her medium to watercolour.
She enjoys painting fantasy with a whimsical feeling.
“During COVID so many people were divided,” said Hume. “I wanted to paint something that was fun and an escape from it all.”
She enjoys watching people and adds this to her work.
At one time Hume did paverpol, which is quite uncommon, although she has taught many classes with this art.
It is a weatherproof three-dimensional object obtained by a frame from wire and tinfoil in the desired shape.
Material is soaked in fabric hardener and shaped around the frame. It is left to dry and then turns rock hard with a bronze colour to it.
Hume has been asked whether or not it actually was bronze.
She no longer does this form of art, as it is messy and dries quickly.
Focused on her watercolour, it brings to life Hume’s imagination and her mythological likes.
Using bright colours brings Hume’s art to life, and this is the way she likes it.
Hume raised three children which are now adults. Tracy is married and is an assistant principal in Calgary and has two boys.
Kirk is also married, owns K and D Truck Repair and Service, and has a son and daughter.
The youngest daughter Nadine is returning to Saskatchewan with her husband and is an Air Force major and base commander in Dundurn.
Pat also has two sons, Mike, who has three sons and a daughter, while Jason has a son and daughter. They both live in Edmonton.
Hume loves the outdoors, hiking and spending time at her cabin, but she also looks forward to meeting many new people while at the Artist Colony.
