Dianne Smith

Dianne Smith is a woman of varied interests, including fine art, investing, real estate, Christian education, counseling, gardening, writing, and travel, especially on the back of her husband's motorcycle. She has been published by "God Allows U-Turns," "Christian Parenting Today" and several other magazines. She volunteers her time weekly to counsel women facing crisis pregnancies at a Pregnancy Resouce Center.

She is manager and curator of Running Fence-recycled, which creates fine art out of the rare, historic Running Fence panels from Christo and Jeanne-Claude's environmental art installation in Sonoma and Marin Counties,California in 1976. Her artist's works have been exhibited in the cities of San Francisco, Stinson Beach, Healdsburg, Santa Cruz, Tiburon, and Carmel Valley, California. Magazines profiling her art include Fiberarts, West Coast Gallery Guide, Design For Living, The Ark, Sonoma Woman, West Marin Citizen and Point Reyes Light.

Raised in Michigan, she moved to sunny California with her husband in 1985. Later they looked further west and bought a condo in Makaha, Hawaii to better watch the sunsets.