Background. Lark Grey Dimond-Cates was born in Kansas City, KS and raised in La Jolla, CA. After receiving her BFA from Stephens College in Columbia, MO, Lark returned to La Jolla where she worked as an artist for the San Diego Zoo. In 1980, shortly after her marriage, she and her husband, Ken, spent a year in Veracruz, Mexico working in a bi-national, bi-cultural school where she was the art instructor for grades 1 through 9. Upon returning to San Diego, Lark worked on her teaching credential at SDSU and concurrently worked at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in San Diego for 2 years as an art teacher.

Hawaii. In 1984, Lark and Ken moved to Kailua Kona, HI where Lark pursued her career as a watercolorist producing prints and originals of local landscapes and Hawaiian subject matter. She then moved into sculpture focusing on traditional Hawaiian hula figures. Subsequently, she was awarded a commission by the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to produce five life-sized Hawaiian women to be installed at the Keahole International Airport in Kailua Kona, HI. This project was dedicated in November of 2000.

The Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden. Overlapping the Hawaii commission, Lark had the opportunity to design, oversee and produce the Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden in Springfield, MA. This project involved 6 years of her life and produced over 30 Seuss characters in bronze. The Seuss Memorial was dedicated in June of 2002 and enjoys increasing nationwide popularity.

Edward P. Boland Memorial. Following the Seuss Memorial Sculpture Garden, Lark was commissioned to design and create a memorial to Edward P. Boland, a Springfield, MA native who spent 36 years in the U.S. House of Representatives. This project was dedicated in October, 2003.

Dr. Seuss and the Geisel Library, UCSD. In honor of Dr. Seuss' 100th birthday on March 2, 2004, Lark unveiled a sculpture of the author and his famous "Cat in the Hat," which now stands adjacent to the Geisel Library on the campus of UCSD.

Tribute to Craig Noel, Founding Artistic Director, Old Globe Theater. Balboa Park, San Diego, CA. Shortly after the installation of the Dr. Seuss tribute at the Geisel Library at UCSD, Lark designed and created a life size bust of Craig Noel. The sculpture, a tribute to Noel, who has been actively involved with the theater since 1937, was dedicated in the summer of 2005, coinciding with Noel's 90th birthday.

Tribute to the Founders of the School of Medicine, UMKC. In 2006, Lark began designing and sculpting this tribute in the form of busts of the three men who founded the University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of Medicine. The sculptures were dedicated in the fall of 2007.

Tribute to Dr. Seuss, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH. In May of 2006, Lark was contacted by Dartmouth College to design and produce a sculptural tribute to Dr. Seuss (Ted Geisel), who was an alumnus at the college. In August of 2006, Lark and her husband Ken visited Dartmouth and met with the President of the college and his advisors to begin the planning phase of the project. Lark plans to install this piece in 2008.

Lark lives in Rancho Santa Fe, CA and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. When not working on commissions, she is designing and sculpting a series based on the female form along with a body of work inspired by her experiences in Mexico.