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.

“I simply can’t get enough of Arizona; its sun on my face, its dirt under my feet, its colors on my pallet. The Grand Canyon state has been generous with inspiration for my 34 years as an artist, and I’m just getting started. There’s always more to explore around the next bend.”

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.

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. Known for her vibrant, large-scale oil paintings, Dyana often features singular plants in precise, minimalist compositions that elevate their beauty and form with scientific clarity and personal reverence. Each work is rooted in Dyana’s lived experience, with subjects discovered through hikes, ecological fieldwork, and restoration efforts across the state.

Dyana lives in Mesa, Arizona with her husband Randy, daughter Sydney and Jack Russell terrier, Boddie. 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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