An artist since childhood, Dina is a self-taught professional artist having had an established studio and arts business in Brisbane for 20 years before moving to Melbourne, and now in her new studio in Gippsland Victoria as she refurbishes a 150-year-old settlers cottage.
Having sold her artwork throughout galleries in Brisbane, in competitions and overseas, her website shows an expansive arts career exploring the beauty of tactile artist materials and running an arts business and teaching others.
The exquisite detail in her work enables viewers to discover creative delights as they explore her works.
Artist Statement
My work is nature based, I am driven to express my view as a householder concerned about our natural environment and pushing on how we interact, blend and preserve it every day.
Reality is in-fact … that we like our consumer products and as home-owners we selectively forget about our collective impact.
Sadly this is not going to change. In my work I ask myself, how can we embrace a unison between our consumer desires and maintain our values in the protection of our native environment?
Having recommenced my career as a full-time artist, I look forward to an renewed journey ahead for me creatively.
Always the artist, Dina
The Creative Entrepreneur
Dina has been an art practitioner since high school. Predominantly self-taught, Dina has attended formal workshops in ceramics, sculpture, stone masonry and mosaic. This has been complimented with further studies in Interior Design and part-time studies in a Diploma of Fine Art.
Dina first started exhibiting her paintings while in high school and gradually moved to home furnishings and sculptural forms after her children were born. In 1997 Dina established a functional art business in Brisbane where she created the unusual 'Fantasy Dreams bedheads'. The stunning bedhead designs have been exported around the world and are custom designed for clients from all backgrounds.
In 2002, after corporate life, Dina established the ArTTable which offers the tuition and supply of art & craft materials throughout Australia. Passionate about art and craft, Dina dreamed of giving other women an opportunity to do what they love by taking creativity to the people. For 5 years her team of 35 tutors around Australia provide craft experiences to over 5000 people in both homes and community centers.
In 2008 Dina returned to full-time corporate work and continued to develop her sculptural art-forms from her Melbourne home inspired by her partners photography and entwining herself into a new modern yet cultural city.
Dina’s blog thatcreativefeeling.com was established in 2012, and aimed to enable others to experience the joy of creative inspiration in their own homes by role modelling the artistic possibilities within everyone’s reach.
Now located in the hills of regional Gippsland she has resumed her fulltime career as an artist in early 2023, and her inspirations come from the local wild-life and community around her region.
Her new retail line of Gothic oddities and curiosities can be found in several local marketplaces.
Today Dina posts her artwork creations and provides insights of her techniques, tools and materials online via That Creative Shop.
That Creative Feeling
That Creative Feeling
That Creative Feeling
That Creative Feeling
Fantasy Dreams Bedheads
The ArTTable
The ArTTable
The ArTTable
The ArTTable
