I am originally from a small town Michigan. My childhood home is on the shore of Lake Superior, surrounded by hundred mile stretches of woodlands.

I paint because I love it. It is as natural and necessary for me as eating. For a long time in my life, I had not painted and my life seemed to yearn for this centering activity. I consider my impetus for painting to be a gift from God. I open myself to the world and am moved by it, whether it be ugly or pretty, and then I strive to transmute this union of emotion and vision into something beautiful through a sort of technical mediation.

I am surrounded by the fertile beauty of the South. My home, for this year, is a small town in Georgia called Louisville. Its people and places are now my subjects. 

Thank you for viewing my works,

Daniel Rekshan