Dan Young

A Denver native, Young says his outdoor upbringing in the Rocky Mountains was a very important influence on his artwork. After graduating from Colorado Institute of Art, Young enjoyed a successful illustration career in Dallas, Texas until 1989. The Colorado landscape was calling him back home to pursue painting the places he knew as a child. Young paints the rural life in the West. Most days you can find him painting on location along a backroad or beside a mountain lake. “What drew me to painting is the love of being out in nature and trying to capture it on canvas. I hope others will feel my emotional connection to nature through my work. I feel I am painting what will become the history of todays West.”