Daniel Zimmerman

Daniel Zimmerman is an Atlanta based artist. His large scale works are created using oil on canvas. Zimmerman explores themes of growth, potential, anticipation, and joy. His canvases are lavished in oil paint through expressive brush strokes and ambient backgrounds.

Tucked behind a quiet garden gate, just past the low hum of insects and the hush of dappled sunlight, is a studio alive with brushstrokes, sawdust, and a kind of radiant optimism you can’t fake. It belongs to an artist who doesn’t just paint flowers—he builds whole worlds from them.

His work is deeply tied to place—southern roots, garden beds, porch chairs, the quiet memory of childhood heat and zinnia fields—and yet it remains unbound. There’s nothing stiff or self-important here. Just the joyful, rigorous business of beauty

“I grew up in very rural Mississippi,” he says, “and there were many parts of it I didn’t appreciate at the time. As a young person, you don’t know you’re making memories until much later. Now, I look back and smile. Most of my great memories are tied to the outdoors—the sights, the scents of nature.”

That tether—between artist and self, between viewer and feeling, between land and light and brushstroke—is what makes his work quietly powerful....

MBA, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS

Art Miami | Context 2024
High Point Spring 2025 | Salon Suites at Market Square
The July Exhibition | Summer 2025 Atlanta