Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is very pleased to announce that wildlife artist Dia Spriggs is the gallery’s newest featured artist. Her artworks will now be featured and promoted in gallery’s Artist Showcase for the next 30 days.

Dia Spriggs is a self-taught wildlife artist living and creating her art in Florida. Dia demonstrates her love of animals, living with 13 cats, 2 dogs and 2 parrots, all rescue animals.

Dia considers herself to primarily be a wildlife/animal artist who excels in realistic animal paintings. In all of her works she tries to capture the heart and soul of that particular animal in their wonderful expressions. In addition, Dia also enjoys painting landscapes, abstracts and floral art.

Dia expresses the following about her art and her love of animals, “being very concerned with nature and the protection of wildlife, animal rescue and preservation of the natural habitat, a portion of the proceeds from the sales of any of my artwork are donated to such organizations that specialize in the protection of animals and our environment.”

Dia is a juried member of EBSQ+ and her works have been licensed and been used on calendars and her paintings have been sold throughout the United States and Europe. Dia is a long time member of the Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery where she has competed and had her art accepted into more than 10 exhibitions since 2010.

She has also had her “Mangrove Egret” painting featured in the 2012 issue of "Culture" Magazine. She was also awarded a EBSQ Members Mention for their Art Show - Flower of the Month, May 2011 - “Liliaceae” Exhibition for “Water Lilly". In addition, Dia was also awarded a EBSQ Members Mention for their "Uncertain" exhibition in May 2011 for "Oh Oh".

Below is a slideshow of Dia's art and her website is http://artbydia.net