Multimedia artist Dina Torrans creates in sculpture, painting and photography – using bronze, clay, gypsum, metal, marble, minerals, cement, wood, found objects, colour and sound.

A large artistic sculpture resembling a set of wings, composed of green and turquoise-toned petals, featuring intricate details and a hanging object near the bottom.
Heirloom V- Preparing to Fly (into a dream), copper, 98 x 56 x 10 cm

My themes tend to be inspired by ideas about nature, our human belief systems, personal and planetary evolution and our ultimate interconnectedness – Dina Torrans

Torrans has been working as a multimedia artist in Toronto for more than 25 years.  She graduated with honours from the Art Centre of Central Technical School in Toronto, where she subsequently worked as a Sculpture and Printmaking instructor and technician for 10 years. She has been a Visiting Artist and Instructor at numerous workshops and seminars at, among others, the McMichael Gallery and the Toronto Board of Education.

A mixed media artwork titled 'Library of the Music Master' featuring a wooden bookshelf filled with various small objects, a small ladder leaning against it, and a decorative cloud atop the shelf.

Her themes are both eternal and exquisitely of our time, writes Art Celebrity magazine in a 30-page feature on Torrans in the Summer, 2025 edition.

A vibrant blue decorative wall piece resembling a set of wings made from layered materials, positioned on the left, alongside a silver heart-shaped pendant with the word 'work' engraved, and a small feather charm hanging from a chain on the right.
Heirloom 13, World Love

Her work can be seen regularly at the Canadian Sculpture Centre in Toronto, Fire Arts Vermont in Brattleboro, The Artists Council in Palm Springs, California, Borrego Springs Art Institute, California and Earth House Hold Studios in Wonder Valley, California.

Mixed media sculpture of a blue helmet with a miniature forest of evergreen trees growing inside, accompanied by decorative elements like an ornamental bird and arrows.

Dina Torrans website, here.

Her Instagram, here.


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