About the Artist
Darlene Hansen Morris began her art career when, at an early age, she received her first new box of Crayola crayons from her artistic mother. Taking art classes each semester, she sold her first watercolor painting to the high school secretary. Her work was exhibited in the annual student show at Balboa Park in San Diego when she was a high school senior.

In the intervening years she has continued her studies with well-known artists, including Annette Paquet, Roger Folk, Gerald Brommer, Katherine Chang Liu, Morten Solberg and Louise Cadillac. Her work has been exhibited in the Southern California area since 1983. Her paintings have been juried into shows at the San Diego Watercolor Society, Carlsbad-Oceanside Art League, Fallbrook Art Association, the San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, and the La Jolla Art Association. Her paintings in oil, watercolor, and acrylics are in private collections across the United States. She is currently working in acrylic with collage, mixed media, and digital photo-collage imagery.

The subjects she chooses to paint are a reflection of her love of the natural landscape and her appreciation of man-made structures. During her youth she traveled with her family by car across the United States several times. As a result, she loves the variety of landscape scenery. Her attraction to architectural forms led her to study architectural drafting and rendering, which increased her understanding of structure and strengthened her work.

Darlene believes art should be an uplifting experience for the beholder as well as the artist. She strives to see grace, beauty, and soul expressed in each work to bring a sense of peace and harmony into each painting.