Daryl Urig

Take a Hike 3 30" x 15" Oil on Canvas $3200

Take a Hike 2 30" x 15" Oil on Canvas $3200

Daryl Urig was raised near the shores of Lake Erie in Avon Lake, Ohio. He is a self taught painter, and will tell you he has painted all of his life. Urig says, “As a painter I am constantly learning and discovering myself and everything around me. I love those instances when a truth is revealed or when an idea changes the way I look and feel about everything you do.” Urig loves to paint in a colorful realistic manor. Some have tried to classify as Romantic Realism. But there is no classifying Urig he is truly original.

He loves to capture that moment in time when the dancing of light reflects its warm and cool colors. His sentiment and emotions can be felt in his painterly observations and the movement of his brush and knife on canvas. You will want to see these paintings in person for they have textural detail and glisten that are missed by any reproduction. This is an artist that you will want to watch.

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, the Toledo Art Museum, he has won national awards and his paintings can be found across the United States.

Urig has never wanted to copy an artist or an artist’s style or an artist’s technique. He takes other painters work as influence on his personal development and feels he learns the most in observation 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, Cincinnati Art Club and participates in many of the country's most significant shows. 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.