Diane Romanello was born in New York City in 1944. A self-taught artist, her stunning work is often categorized as romantic realism. Romanello creates inviting landscapes that invite the viewer into the composition, often characterized by a path or other central entry point into the landscape that leads the viewer’s eye into the scene. “I want the viewer to feel as though they can step right into my work,” she notes. Romanello uses sumptuous color to depict the natural world realistically, but there’s a tranquil and inviting calm in her artworks that the real world often lacks. Because of this charm and uncanny beauty in her work, her one-person shows regularly sell out, and she’s featured prominently in many private and corporate collections, including those of AT&T and Columbia Pictures.