Biography of Daryl Urig
07/02/08
Daryl Urig was born & raised in Avon Lake, Ohio, near the shores of Lake Erie. His experiences as a child and close relationship with his mother and his grandfather a horticulturist has helped him to develop many of the unique characteristics of his artwork. His father was a successful businessman, head of employee benefits for Cleveland’s East Ohio Gas Company.
Daryl is an accomplished figurative oil painter, painting in a colorful realistic impressionistic style. Many of his paintings are of his wife Robyn in their garden. He loves the dancing of light in the garden as it casts its warm and cool colors on the figure.
He paints just about everything visible in his everyday life -- landscapes, still lifes, city streets, seascapes, portraits, figures, nudes, animals, interiors and anything else that will hold still long enough to be painted or photographed.
While in High School he won the Hallmark Award for Painting. In college his work was chosen in his senior year to represent his school on the cover of Dialogue Magazine. The same work won a juried show and was exhibited In Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, in Columbus Ohio. He has exhibited his works in many shows and galleries (please see his website) and his work can be found across the United States.
Daryl’s formal college training was from the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio. He graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration. He moved to the New Jersey / New York area where he further studied illustration and figure drawing at DuCrete School of Arts. He worked for New York and New Jersey publishers as a Freelance Book Cover and magazine Illustrator.
When Daryl moved to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1984, he worked in the design field, illustrating and designing advertisements and package designs for Procter & Gamble and many other major and global brands. Many of his earlier paintings ended up on national brands in the form of package or promotional designs. A nice highlight was designing the Cincinnati Oktoberfest poster in 1986 incorporating some of his early painting style.
Daryl also teaches as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Cincinnati, and Director of Total Media Source, an Internet Marketing Solutions Company.
Daryl has painted through his entire career and is always looking for new approaches and ways to express his ideas. He says, “As a painter I am forever learning and discovering myself and everything around me. I love those moments when some great truth is opened up to me. An idea that changes the way I look and feel about everything.“
Many impressionist artists, Sargent, Mary Cassatt, and Degas have inspired Daryl. Though he feels he learns most by observing people and nature while exploring and interpreting each new subject in paint.
Daryl writes for the Harrison LifeStyle Magazine as a contributing freelance writer and also writes poems to compliment many of his paintings.
More of his paintings can be seen on his web site at www.DarylUrig.com.
Email: Robyn&Daryl@DarylUrig.com
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