About the Works

Although working in the Western figurative tradition, Dimce's Macedonian heritage links him to the region's unknown artists that inspired the Rennaisance. Medieval travellers told of luminous works - burning with holy fire - contained within Macedonia's monasteries. Largely untrained, these servants of the Spirit practised art for art's sake. Initially self taught, Dimce's most recent teachers include Ilija Minoski and Kiril Gegoski of Prilep, Macedonia. Both have furthered his aim of achieving optimal expressive force with the greatest economy of means." Ilija and Kire were able to give me the push that took me into a new way of seeing; the conceptualising of a living, vibrating perception of reality," he says.

He mistrusts however, intellectualism and ego-based art."My whole journey as an artist has been to become invisible. The work must be accessable without long-winded explanation. The artist, drawing upon the images within, must be able to strike the imagination of the viewer bringing about identification with the artist's intent", he says.

Dimce has worked in all graphic media but favours charcoal. His collaboration with Master Printer 'George Coles' employs both water and oil based inks on heavy rag paper. For the last six years he has been pre-occupied with portraiture in oils. It is here that Dimce's great love; the ever unique and beautiful dignity of the human spirit, finds its expression. It's eternal origins speak to us through the eyes while it's temporal journey is defined through the individual features.

Dimce is represented in private collections in Europe, North America and Australia. For him, there is nothing more challenging or exciting than creating art. Confronting one's self in the creative process is not for the timid or faint-hearted, for it is a cauldron of fire that transforms and allows the true artist to go beyond himself and to become a server of hearts.

What is it then, that is able to touch the human heart, to move and change our lives? Or the mystery that connects one human life to another? "These are the questions," says Dimce, "that thrill and inspire me to create art."

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