Dianne Flynn was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire in 1939 and has been a full-time artist since 1976. She attended art schools in Huddersfield and Batley before going on to Manchester School of Art in 1970. Dianne graduated three years later with a Diploma in Art & Design. After a further year of study at Leeds Polytechnic, she was awarded an Art Teacher’s Certificate in 1974.

Dianne  Flynn lived and worked in Normandy from 1989 to 1997 but now lives and paints in Exeter with her husband the artist, Paul Hedley.

Dianne’s work has been exhibited at:

The Royal Society of Portrait Painters

The Pastel Society, London

The Royal Overseas League (1st prize-winner)

Polak Gallery, London

Walker Galleries, Harrogate

Bourne Gallery, Reigate

Nevill Gallery, Canterbury

Priory Gallery, Broadway

Thompsons Galleries

One-Man Shows:

Gallery Joniskeit, Stuttgart

Magees Gallery, Belfast

MacConnal-Mason, London

Moore Designs, Pont l’Eveque

Cooper Fine Arts, London

Baron Fine Art, Chester

Galerie Chaye, Honfleur

Galerie Gerard, Wassenaar, Holland

Campbells of Walton Street, London

Victorian Gallery, Dallas