Ms. Dinora has been painting with watercolor for five years. She has taken classes and attended many workshops at the Art League School in Alexandria, Virginia and with the Baltimore Watercolor Society. Watercolor has become her medium of choice. For several years she has been showing her work and has been accepted for juried membership in several watercolor societies. She has consistantly been accepted in juried shows and has won many awards. Prior to discovering watercolor she painted with oils and acrylics, did bronze sculpture, is a stained glass artist and does computer graphics at her full-time job as an manager for a consulting company.

She lives in Calvert County Maryland with her husband Mike, 3 cats and an Amazon parrot.