Creating art has always been a refuge for me: part mental and emotional purge and part mindlessness.
I have long been drawn to nature, and light, and more recently, to a search for peace. A few years ago, I made huge changes in my non-art life which began to bleed into my artwork. All aspects of my life were finally aligning and becoming a cohesive whole. And then the world stopped, and I stopped, too. For years my motto has been Be The Butterfly. I am just now reinventing myself, out of the cocoon, out of the goo. My current work focuses on growth and transformation.

Dawn Diamantopoulos was raised in rural northeastern Pennsylvania, which she happily left, to attend college at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. She received a BFA in Fine Arts in 1992, having majored in Fine Arts – Printmaking and minored in the History of Art. Feeling a bit jaded and world-weary with New York City, she relocated to Southern California. She continued drawing, painting, and photographing. Her “real job” eventually brought her to Chicago, where she stopped creating artwork and started creating a family. She has lived in Northwest Indiana for over twenty years with her husband and two sons.

In 2009, she began creating artwork again, which she fully credits with keeping her almost sane. She started with drawings. Within a year, she realized she needed to be back in the art scene and hasn't looked back. She began painting, then mixed media work and found a return to her printmaking roots. She considers herself a painter but continues to dabble in different media.