Dana Westring
Dana has drawn on his personal and multi-skilled creative history, bringing freshness and unique sensitivity to the long-held tradition of the depiction of the ancient world.
Dana began his painting career as an illustrator and muralist, with large canvases installed in public spaces and residential projects in the US and Middle East. His works have included an iconic ceiling in the Avalon theatre in Washington DC and architectural and non-figurative wall murals for the royal family in Jordan. He has devoted the last twenty years to drawings and watercolours as an artist, as well as to garden design. Most recently he has shown his images of the coast of Maine and of Cambodian temple studies at Susan Calloway Fine Arts in Washington DC.
He has also designed gardens in Washington DC and Virginia, and created his own garden near Middleburg, Virginia, which has been published and visited by numerous garden study groups. He is on the board of the Garden Conservancy in the United States. The knowledge and skills developed as an illustrator, landscape gardener and maker of large-scale wall paintings have all made a subtle contribution to the creation of this beautiful, deeply evocative body of work.