Artist Statement

 

 "My paintings represent an ongoing quest to discover details around me and to reveal what cannot be expressed with words. I strive to tap into intuitive creative painting and share it by visual art and transfer it onto support medium such as a canvas. Every time I start a new painting, I take a moment to allow this creative energy to flow allowing me to “play”; experiment and allow the paint to take its different forms and to communicate something, creating an impression on the viewer - without natural imagery or symbols, but rather with pure visual form".

 

Short Bio

 

Growing up, art was an important part of Dana's life. Throughout her life, she collected images, experiences and emotions expressing them through her art, relying on intense colors and incorporating various forms, patterns and textures, channeling this talent through her graphic art as well as her painting. For Dana, art is creation, transformation and a medium of expression. Her work concentrates on creating abstract surfaces through her favourite medium; acrylics, but works in oil and has experimented with a variety of mixed media such as pastels, ink, wire, fabric, silk screen and many others. 

Her paintings present deep emotions; each canvas tells a story of her personal journey to discover her identity as an artist. She takes her inspiration from day to day experiences and emotions turning them into physical expressions and visualisations with constantly changing colours and shapes. Dana is captivated by the colours she can create, and strives to construct an entire world on her canvas. Her style is abstract expressionist and paints intuitively, drawing upon her emotions and imagination rather than working from photographic images. Dana paints to 'express', conjuring abstract images found in nature and captured through her love of photography. Her art style is also contemporary, utilising different art methods. She is not afraid to try and mix bright colours because art should be an adventure. She is interested in a variety of elements involved in the creation and destruction of surfaces - regularity and irregularity and the relationship between minimal form and surface texture.