Following a career as an illustrator, Dianne has been specialising in botanical subjects since 2000. She has exhibited in galleries throughout Scotland and England including the McEwan Gallery, Ballater, the Malcolm Innes Gallery, Edinburgh and the SBA annual show at Westminster Hall, London. Selected studies are also included in the Hunt Institute's collection of botanical documentation, Pittsburgh, USA.
In 2002 her work was accepted by the RHS picture committee. In that same year Dianne undertook further study of her subject material at the University of Aberdeen, graduating with a BSc Honours in Biology in 2006. During her studies she was awarded a scholarship to work in the University's Cruickshank Botanical Garden. So far she has achieved two RHS Silver Medal awards at the Gardeners World Live Exhibitions, in 2006, for her collection of native plants from the Cruickshank Garden, and in 2008 for studies of reproductive mechanisms in flowers, inspired by the work of Arthur Harry Church.
Dianne works in watercolour on paper or vellum and grows most of her subject material at her home on the Banffshire coast in north east Scotland . She is currently growing Meconopsis species (M. betonicifoilia and M. grandis) from seed provided by the Meconospsis Group and is looking forward to painting the plants when they come into flower next year.