Diane Falkenhagen holds a B.F.A. from the University of North Texas and an M.F.A. from the University of Houston. She is a native of Texas but has also lived for extended periods in Brazil, Alaska, and England. Diane maintains a private studio on Galveston Island in Texas.

Diane is best known for her fabricated, one-of-a-kind jewelry. Her mixed media compositions often combine evocative pictorial imagery with fabricated metal forms and a diverse range of art media. Her work is an unconventional marriage of material and content that references myriad interests, including: memory, metaphor, art history, iconography, and nature.