Artist Dyana Hesson loves a good adventure. She was born and raised in the gold country of Northern California. As a kid, she was always happiest exploring outdoors and rarely settled down to read a book all the way through.
When Dyana’s father gave her his old 35 mm film camera in elementary school, her skinned knees and grass-stained clothes gave way to a quiet appreciation of aesthetic beauty. She was interested in the landscape, but more than just scenic vistas. At close range, the hues and contours of flowers and plants caught her eye. Some of the first things she photographed were the succulents growing in her mother’s garden.
A hard worker but a struggling student, Hesson found her gift of painting in an art class in college. She changed her major and studied art at Arizona State University where she developed her style of applying thin layers of oil paint with very little texture. After graduating with honors, Dyana combined her newly found skills with the work ethic of her childhood, and soon art collectors eagerly invested in her radiant paintings. Her work has received national and local awards and is collected worldwide.
Dyana lives in Mesa, Arizona with her husband Randy, daughter Sydney and Jack Russell terrier, Bodie. She has a case of incurable wanderlust, and a love affair with God’s creation.
“It is a privilege and pleasure to be a fine artist in today’s world. It is a pleasure because I get to wake every morning and do what I love and pour my soul into creating something beautiful. It is also a privilege because with creating comes responsibility. My desire is to create a safe place where a viewer’s eyes can land and rest for awhile. It has been said that the only two things that can pierce our hearts are beauty and affliction, and if this is so, we need a measure of beauty in our lives in equal proportion to our affliction. My unspoken agreement with my collectors and fans is that I will always bring my very best to you. I will work hard to bring a measure of beauty to your world with all the ability God has given me.”
Read about her latest project in American Art Collector Magazine
Dyana is a proud to be a Master Signature Member of American Women Artists, Arizona Highways Magazine contributor, founding member of the Phoenix Zoo Art Committee, and Phoenix Home and Garden Magazine Master of the Southwest.
She has been an exhibiting artist at COWGIRL UP at the Desert Caballeros Western Museum for five years. Her 25 year retrospective, Return to the Desert, was exhibited at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona in 2016, and her 35 year retrospective, Wild Arizona will take place October 4-December 7, 2025 at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tuscon, Arizona.
Public Art
-On permanent collection at Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West
–Mayo Clinic Phoenix Campus, elevator lobbies and lower lever walkway, new expansion.
–Barrows Neurological Center St. Joseph’s Hospital, Phoenix Arizona. Original art in Patient check in, limited prints in all patient rooms.
-On permanent collection at Phoenix Sky Harbor Museum.
-Ongoing rotating exhibit at Rusconi’s American Kitchen, 10637 N Tatum Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85028
-Ritz-Carlton Dove Mountain, Arizona Honeymoon suite and master suites
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