ARTIST STATEMENT

 

 

My mission as an artist is to help as many people as possible to build, enhance and develop consciousness and awareness to better their life. 

 

To me, painting is a connection to a source of higher power and will. When I paint, it is a realization of a journey that connects me to an inner desire. 

 

I have a deep will within me to experience a different dimension, a different reality and a passion for a "standing-tall" life where I am involved and feel influential. Creating my art brings me to that same "tall place" where I connect to my inner source. 

 

Every one of my paintings enfolds a story. Each work of art portrays a journey of people, an opportunity for growing, moving, and traveling between dimensions. 

 

I use bright, lively colors to evoke life and passion. The use of these vibrant colors demonstrates change, vitality and movement. 

 

My wish is to enable observers to experience through my creations the beautiful "tall place" and the powers which are interwoven into the painting. 

 

With the paintings, I feel that I have the ability to move, change and create new dimensions as well as expand existing dimensions. I believe there are no limits, no boundaries and that everything is possible. 

I no longer want to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my paintings mean something to people.

 Dina Soker

 

 

BIOGRAPHY 

 

Dina Soker was born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1965. Dina found a new home in Naperville, Illinois when she relocated to the United States in 2005 with her husband and son. 

 

She graduated from the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1994, specializing in Art, Graphic Design and Industrial Design. 

 

She is a member of the Art and Sculpture Association of the city of Holon, Israel and a member of the Naperville art league in Naperville, Illinois, USA. 

 

Dina's passion for teaching and working with youth found a route of fruition when she joined the staff of a newly-established high-school in the city of Modi'in, where she taught Art and Design for four years. 

Dina works in several mediums using oil, water color, acrylics, pastels and chalk, as well as combined techniques.