Alison Dibble is a retired ecologist and conservation biologist living in Maine, U.S.A. She paints landscapes and seascapes in a loose, impressionistic style, and figures (people and animals), still life subjects, and abstract works. She interprets what is in front of her, and she imagines what is not.
Dibble has been making art all her life. Indeed her first teacher was her mother, Barbara Coan, a painter, who taught her to paint. As a teenager she attended a summer program at the Boston Museum of Fine Art School, then earned a B.A. in English Literature at Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY. She married and raised a family, and also earned her M.S. in Botany and Ph.D. in Plant Science at the University of Maine, Orono. She worked as an ecologist for 30 years, researching rare plants, forest fire fuels and invasive plants, forest ecology, and pollinators especially native bees of Maine. She retired in 2021. Her art teachers have included not only her mother Barbara Coan, but also Roberta Griffith, Louise Bourne, Frank Sullivan, Amy Hosa, Donald Demers, Jerry Rose, Tom Curry, Olena Babak, and Marsha Donahue. She can hear their voices in her head while she paints, still guiding and inspiring her.
Dibble has been making art all her life. Indeed her first teacher was her mother, Barbara Coan, a painter, who taught her to paint. As a teenager she attended a summer program at the Boston Museum of Fine Art School, then earned a B.A. in English Literature at Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY. She married and raised a family, and also earned her M.S. in Botany and Ph.D. in Plant Science at the University of Maine, Orono. She worked as an ecologist for 30 years, researching rare plants, forest fire fuels and invasive plants, forest ecology, and pollinators especially native bees of Maine. She retired in 2021. Her art teachers have included not only her mother Barbara Coan, but also Roberta Griffith, Louise Bourne, Frank Sullivan, Amy Hosa, Donald Demers, Jerry Rose, Tom Curry, Olena Babak, and Marsha Donahue. She can hear their voices in her head while she paints, still guiding and inspiring her.
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