About Diny

My name is Diny Maas. I am the youngest member of a large family of nine children in Reusel (NL). The showroom and warehouse of my parents' construction materials shop filled my imagination with shape and colour. At home it was always busy and at school you had to colour 'within the lines'. So I drew with my eyes: the light, patterns on the wallpaper, the foliage in autumn. Tumbling images, a kaleidoscope of colours. I dreamed images and colours, discovered patterns, held it in front of me, inside me.

What I saw was absorbed into a growing and living body of work, deep inside. Half a lifetime later, it bursts forth. I took courses at the Art Academies of Arendonk, Neerpelt and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. I also participated in various workshops and master classes in different countries. Here, it is also allowed to work 'outside the lines'. I show my colours. First mainly with paintings, later also with drawings.

I live and work in Lanaken, continuing to amaze myself, still searching and discovering. I paint with heart and soul.