Dyan Padgett — Paintings Photographed by Mitch Rossow

Floral and Still Life Painter · Studio 200, Northrup King Building, Minneapolis

Dyan Padgett is a Minneapolis painter whose oils focus on florals, botanicals and still lifes: peonies, roses, hollyhocks and garden subjects painted on Belgian linen. In her own words: “I seek the extraordinary in the ordinary.”

She grew up with the landscapes of the Midwest and spent years studying and living in Europe, and both show up in her compositions, which tie flowers to memory and place. Her training is in the Atelier method, six years of it at The Atelier in Minneapolis, which pairs academic draftsmanship with the color sensibility of the Boston School. You can see that combination in how she handles light on petals and leaves: the drawing is exact, and the color stays warm and alive.

Her work has been selected for the American Women Artists National Juried Show, where it won both the People’s Choice Award and the Master Framer’s Award, and for the Sylvia Maria Glesmann Floral Exhibition at the Salmagundi Club in New York. Closer to home, her painting Mother’s Day was accepted into the Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibit and sold on the first day. She paints in Studio 200 at the Northrup King Building, open during Art-A-Whirl, Art Attack and most Saturdays, and she takes commissions.

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Dyan brings in florals regularly, and they’re the kind of work where color accuracy in the photograph matters most: the cream of a peony, the red at its center, and the greens around it all have to read true, in the file and in her prints. Schedule your own session →