Dana was born into a family of arIsts, fashion designers and musicians. By the age of three, she was quite certain that she would become a painter. At 17, her painter grandmother gifted her her oils, brushes, palette and easel with the proviso that she make regular use of them.

Dana sees the world around her as shapes of varying colour, tone and feeling. She uses a palette knife to paint in the impasto technique, yielding a textured, sculpted surface. Her abstracted landscapes and figuraIve works, predominately in oils, emerge as layers of colour overlapping in expressionist marks. When in studio, Dana paints primarily upon her grandmother’s vintage 1940s easel.

Born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Dana enrolled in the visual arts program at Central Technical School in Toronto in the 1990s. It was then that she found she had a driving need to paint. Dana lived in Toronto, Japan, Victoria, B.C. and Owen Sound, Ontario before settling in Collingwood, Ontario where she lives with her partner and two daughters. The surrounding natural landscapes, as well as scenes from her many travels, are her main sources of inspiraIon.

Dana’s work can be found in art galleries and private collections across Canada, the US. and England. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions and has been published in House and Garden UK and Style at Home Magazine amongst others.