Daniel Van Zyle
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Ever
since primitive man first recorded the stories of his hunting encounters on cave
walls, the natural world has been a subject of artistic fascination.
Daniel Van Zyle is first of all an outdoorsman, then a
drawer and painter of pictures. Raised in rural surroundings, Daniel Van Zyle
grew up with nature as his greatest companion; and his love of wildlife and wild
places was imprinted upon him at an early age. It is this connection to nature
that draws him to delineate images of birds and animals; and his love of the
out-of-doors that inspire his dramatic land-and-waterscapes.
As one critic observed, Van Zyle's works are united by
a "keen observation and attention to detail with virtuoso drawing skills that
create a pure and precise vision of the beauty and vulnerability of wildlife."
"Every time I start new work," Van Zyle says, "I simply
set out to retell some field experience or observation, and each time I get into
the art I find that it is in working my way through the complex harmony of
subject to landscape to light that I discover the painting and rediscover the
wild places I so love."
Daniel Van Zyle's paintings, drawings, etchings and
stone lithographs are exhibited in galleries throughout the United States and
Canada; his works are collected internationally. Dan and his wife, Roslyn, live
in Olympia, Washington. When not working in his studio, you may find him fishing
in any body of water larger than a puddle or wandering the wild places with his
dog, Ikaika. |
LLC