Daryl Urig was raised near the shores of Lake Erie
in Avon Lake, Ohio. Close relationships with a creative mother and with
his maternal grandfather, a horticulturist, helped him to develop the
unique characteristics of his artwork.
Urig’s formal training was at the Columbus College of Art and Design
where he obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration. He also
studied illustration and figure drawing at the DuCrete School of Arts.
He worked in New York and New Jersey as a freelance book cover and
magazine illustrator.
Moving to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1984, Daryl designed and illustrated
advertisements and packaging for Proctor and Gamble. He was selected to
design and paint the poster promoting the Cincinnati Oktoberfest in
1986. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Cincinnati and
the director of Total Media Source Inc., an internet marketing company.
Urig has continued to paint and always looks for new approaches to
express his ideas. He says, “As a painter I am constantly learning and
discovering myself and everything around me. I love those moments when
a truth is revealed or when an idea changes the way I look and feel.”
Many of his paintings feature his wife, Robyn, and their garden. He
loves the dancing of light and the warm and cool colors the light
brings to the garden.
In high school he won a Hallmark award for painting. During his senior
year at the Columbus College of Art and Design, one of his works was
chosen for the cover of Dialogue Magazine. That work won a juried show
and was exhibited in the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts in Columbus,
Ohio. His painting has been exhibited in many galleries and can be
found across the United States.
Artists
such as Claude Monet, Mary Cassatt, Pablos Picasso, Jackson Pollock,
M.C. Escher, Edgar Degas, Thomas Hart Benton and so many others are
Urig’s inspiration. But he feels he learns the most while observing
people and exploring each new subject in paint.
Urig is a nationally recognized oil painter who resides in Harrison,
Ohio, just outside of Cincinnati. He is a member of the Portrait
Society of America, Oil Painters of America and participates in many of
the country's most significant shows. More of his paintings can be seen
on his web site at www.DarylUrig.com.
Email: Robyn@DarylUrig.com
Artist Statement
I have always wanted to paint.
Thomas Hart Benton said “painting is a great field if you can make it
past the first 30 years”. He is right. I worked in the publishing and
advertising industry in New York. I have designed packages for Procter
and Gamble. My own company Total Media Source Inc. does web marketing.
And for 10 years, I have taught web design, web marketing and animation
at the University of Cincinnati.
I paint the things I see in every day life -- landscapes, still lifes,
city streets, seascapes, portraits, nudes, animals, interiors –anything
that will hold still long enough for me to photograph or paint. My
gallery for many years was the grocery isle – the graphics of packaging
that are so temporary and then tomorrow’s garbage.
My inspirations are the thing I love because I must love what I paint.
I believe your love comes through your work. I must paint. Painting is
always on my mind. Like a grand design stamped on everything, I am a
painter.
As a painter, I am forever discovering myself – the moments when some
great truth becomes clear – an idea that changes the way I look at
things. Color makes my mind’s eye crazy with excitement. Like notes in
a jazz piece, color dances on the canvas, sparkles, and hides in the
most usual places. I do studies, not pictures, in the hope that others
see what they otherwise would miss.
My life has been study of God’s creation. I am in awe of what he has
made. I am a student of how His wisdom has fit color, life, and light
together. And it is just now I am able to speak a few word in paint.