Dimitra L. Hengen is an international artist with showings in the USA, Europe.
She is a multidimensional artist working with different art mediums: oil, acrylic, watercolor, and mixed art mediums such as collage, three-dimensional assemblage.
She was born in Thessaloniki and raised in Belgium where she attended art classes learning about the Flemish painters. During her long stays in India, Bangladesh, Africa, she was influenced by nature and native art, and while living in the USA, she was inspired by contemporary American Indian art and the use of colorful feathers and beads.
“L’art nous est donné pour nous empêcher de mourir de la vérité.
We have art in order not to die of the truth ”
The artistic world of Dimitra L. Hengen was always intertwined in a swirl of cultural experiences with countless explosions of colorful intellectual and sensual images reflected in her artwork to which we all respond, more or less intensely: some eliciting emotional sensations, others appealing directly to our intellect. Both share an essential rank as we have as much need of one as the other.
The emotional aspect of Dimitra's paintings is the first step in creating a personalized language that speaks to the viewer’ sensitivity and gets to a deeper level of emotional understanding.