Dana has a master’s degree in architecture. She worked in Prague and Toronto architectural firms before switching to textile art. In 1978, Dana established and ran the company Artacious, designing and painting textile art wall pieces, silk fabrics and artwear. 

Since moving from Toronto to Canmore in 1997, Dana has become involved in the Alberta art community and is now a full-time studio artist, working in mixed media, acrylics and textiles. Dana won many awards for her art locally, nationally and internationally; one of the local awards was the textile art competition for Canmore Art Trust (a triptych now hangs in the Council Chamber at Canmore Town Hall).

Dana spends a lot of her time up in the mountains, where she gets her main inspiration. She believes that the paintings should be viewed as visual poetry and, therefore, affect our senses and emotions without too much talking about it.