Diane Maclean

Diane Maclean is a sculptor and environmental artist, she is a Fellow and council member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors.
Maclean gained a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art from the University of Hertfordshire, having previously gained a BA in modern languages at University College London.
Originally a portrait painter, initially her sculptures tended to be in wood and stone, but much of her later work uses stainless steel.

Commissions

Maclean has been commissioned for a number of public art installations.
Her sculpture Mountains was a stainless steel walk-through sculpture based on the growth of crystals and included recordings of geological sounds and mineral images from research at the Natural [History Museum, London|Natural History Museum] in London. The piece was displayed at the Natural History Museum in 2005 before moving to a permanent home at the University of Hertfordshire. Other commissions for pieces of public art, include Green Wind which stands as a focal feature in Ravenswood, Ipswich. Her one-person show Bird, commissioned by the DLI Museum and Durham Art Gallery, was a mixture of large-scale external sculptures and large-format photographs with text and sound installation at Durham County Council's North of England Lead Mining Museum at Killhope, upper Weardale.