Diane Schroeder majored in art with a strong focus in interior design at the University of Nebraska. After graduating with a BFA, Diane chose a career in the design field, but she never abandoned her love for her art. Whether it was three-dimensional art interpreted from clients desires or 2 dimensional painting exploring abstractions interpreted from subtle adventures, both seem to influence each other.Since her early adult years of painting, Diane has moved from a formal application of oil on canvas to a spontaneous palate of oil and mixed media. Her pieces abstractly suggest landscape shapes and textures and the translucencies and reflections of atmospheric colors. With the exploration of contrast and contradiction, Diane introduced collage as an exciting additional dimension to her work and she continues to define and refine detail and strength.While Diane enjoyed a long, successful interior design career for national and international commercial interior architectural firms, she was represented by a Chicago gallery for some time and continued to build her painting career under the signature, D.Schumacher.In 2007, Diane made a decision to leave the commercial design profession to focus on her art. Her artist signature is now D. Schroeder.Her work can be found in the collections of major corporations and private residences and she is represented by LaFontsee Galleries in Grand Rapids, MI. She was included in the juried exhibit of American Women Artists in 2011 and recently published in an international volume featuring 15 artists: Pubblicazione XX Secolo/1 by Domenico Amoroso and Sylvia Franchi. and was chosen to exhibit in Klakenfurt, Austria along with 14 other international women artists in 2013 which moved on to the MACC- Museo d'Arte Contemporanea in Caltagorone, Italy in 2013 where her work remains in the permanent collection.