Dan’s artistic journey began in the years of wanderlust following high school. He worked as a ranch hand in Arizona, in construction along the beaches of Florida, refinished furniture in Louisiana, and spent four years in the infantry, including two years in Germany. Wherever he went, Dan filled sketchbooks and journals for his own enjoyment.

After a couple of years of college in Colorado, he realized that what meant most to him were his sketchbooks. He quit his job and college, sold everything he had, and decided that committing to one path was what all his previous experiences had led him toward.

Using his G.I. Bill, Dan attended Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, followed by continued study at the Art Students League of Denver with many contemporary painters and the Impressionist masters.

Equally adept at figurative, still-life and landscape, Dan is an experimenter by nature, as well as being firmly rooted in the tradition of Impressionism. His love of nature and a deep respect for the tradition of art serve as both guide and inspiration to his goal of "making a contribution" to the world of painting.

Dan's paintings evoke a timelessness and dignity that are the underlying themes in whatever he paints. "Painting is a balancing act between opposite ideas - direct observation and instinct, control and spontaneity, even between the literal and the symbolic. It seems to me that although a painter is deeply involved with his own private investigation, his real aim is to communicate something to the viewer that resonates on a uniquely personal level." 

Dan and his wife now live in Navarre, Florida, near his most favorite childhood home.