Daniel Jay Freed is an emerging artist living in West Chester. He creates an unusually eclectic array of oil paintings ranging from slightly surreal and humorous story based concepts, landscapes that are a mix of imagination, design and reality, as well as still life and plein air subjects. An example of a story based painting is The Balloon Thief in which a dog and his boy owner have stolen a bunch of balloons from a beach vendor. Dan refers to his story based approach as Odd little stories that wouldn`t stay put. He calls his method Organic Imagination because ideas and compositions form in a variety ways, and he doesn`t set limits on styles or technique (and because it sounds fancy!). Please visit http://danieljayfreed.com .

Dan was raised in Cleveland OH, lived in Columbus for 20 years, and lived in Oregon for 9 years before moving to PA in 2014. He earned a bachelors degree from the Columbus College of Art and Design in 1990 and received a Master of Arts in Teaching from Western Oregon University in 2009. He has taught art in public schools, University of Oregon, and community centers. He is married with 2 children...and 2 annoying cats.