BIOGRAPHY
Diana Jacobs was born and raised on Long Island. She began studying art as a teenager and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh. After moving to Los Angeles she received certificates in both botanical and zoological illustration from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles. Ms. Jacobs background in the art community is diverse - from working with commercial artists on Madison Avenue, gallery work on Melrose, as a free lance illustrator at the Huntington Gardens to teaching at Otis-Parsons. In the last thirteen years she has focused on her studio work. Her mixed media and printwork has been internationally exhibited and shown throughout the United States. Ms. Jacobs work has also appeared in feature films and television. In the past few years she completed illustrations for “The Memory Bible” by Dr. Gary Small , created a work for “The Book Of Lies”, a large scale collaborative piece by Eugenia Butler, and was an Arts panelist at the Conference of World Affairs, University of Colorado at Boulder.
Today you will more often than not find Diana working on her latest body of work called Time Travelers. Walking into Diana Jacobs’ studio in Los Angeles, one might feel like a character trapped inside of a curio cabinet. Or like you’re poking through your great, great, great grandmothers interesting yet very creepy attic all alone. You are surrounded by found objects and history, science, botany and biology. This is where Diana Jacobs creates the Time Travelers - curios to wear and admire using ingredients such as 19th Century Doll parts, bones, vintage watches and jewels, beads, feathers, wire and wings. All pendants, each pin and every sculpture is unique and has a long story to tell!