Cleo de Merode 1895 Drawing

https://lifeonstilts.com/ https://www.instagram.com/lifeonstilts/ Daniel grew up in northern Michigan, Maryland and Florida. His father was an epidemiologist and his mother a schoolteacher. He has two brothers, both scientists. He graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in graphic design and began a long career in advertising as an art director and illustrator. His work has been shown in a number of public exhibitions and private collections including The Orlando Museum of Art, Mills Gallery Orlando, CityArts Orlando and ArtFields Festival in South Carolina. His work was recently featured on area billboards as part of The Corridor Project, A program of Orlando’s Downtown Arts District. He is currently working on a traffic box in downtown Orlando and preparing for a one person show in January at CityArts Orlando. He gathers inspiration from the earliest days of photography to create contemporary paintings and drawings using a variety of media both traditional and digital. His most recent work has been experimenting with the area between representation and abstraction using the figure as a starting point. Currently he divides his time between painting, design, avoiding looking at his phone and writing about himself in the third person.