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Moonlight, Carmel River Beach |
Summer Evening, Yosemite Valley |
Spanish Bay Dunes |
Cypres Point, Pebble Beach |
Spring Snowmelt, Byron Cyn. |
Tenaya Lake |
Serene Valley |
Sun Sparkle, Carmel Bay |
Napa Valley Barn |
Spring Wildflowers |
Sedona Cliffs |
Mt. Lassen, Kings Creek Meadow |
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Salt River Valley, AZ |
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DAVID DALTON
American
David Dalton was born in Pontiac,
Michigan in 1952. He grew up in California's Santa Clara valley in an
artistic environment. His father, renowned artist Lee Truax Dalton, taught
David to draw, and David would watch his father paint. As a teenager,
David began surfing, and developed a love of the ocean. Because of his
surfing experience, when he began to paint, the ocean was his subject
of choice.
David graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1977.
During his time as a college student, he would work after class doing
artwork on surfboards at the local board manufacturers. Pen and ink, watercolors
or airbrushed acrylics were then sealed under fiberglass and resin to
produce surfboards that were works of art. During a weekend visit to Carmel
with his father, David was particularly impressed by the exciting depictions
of the waves painted by Alexander Dzigurski. With new enthusiasm, David
decided to dedicate his time to painting ocean views in oil.
After college, David began teaching during the day, and painting at night.
In 1978 he was able to begin painting full time, his work promoted by
a prominent Los Angeles art gallery. He has now been showing and selling
his work continuously for over three decades. He currently resides with
wife, Cheryl, in the small Sierra foothill town of Coarsegold, California.
Today, Dalton's images of the pounding California surf and the spirited
motion of the Pacific Ocean are crisp, forceful and captivating.He has
mastered a unique style of brushwork that gives luminosity to his canvases,
and a depth of detail that sets his work apart from his contemporaries.
His award wining seascapes range from the burning intensity of a California
sunset to the haunting moodiness of a silver-cast moon reflecting off
ice-blue waters.
During the first decade of his painting career, Dalton specialized in
ocean scenes. But, his eye caught the beauty of the classic California
landscape, and he began to add scenes of oak shaded barns nestled into
gentle rolling hillsides, and the grandeur of the National Parks of the
West to his selection of favorite subjects. David enjoys traveling the
back roads of the West with his camera, on the lookout for a fitting composition.
Seascape or Landscape, Dalton's paintings are characterized by astounding
detail. Yet, the artist says he is more concerned with composition and
the overall effect, rather than just dazzling the viewer with detail.
Over the years his award wining paintings have earned him the respect
of being named one of California's foremost Land and Seascape artists.
Classic Gallery is pleased to present the works of this Contemporary Master.
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