Dianna Vosburg was born in 1961 in Bremerton, Washington. She spent her early childhood on the West Coast, and then moved to Mystic, Connecticut. Dianna attended Goddard College in Vermont for two years. She returned to California to finish her BA in Psychology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Back in New England, Dianna studied oil painting at the Danforth, Worcester, and DeCordova museum schools, life drawing at the New England Realist Art School, and has studied privately with Carl Schaad.