HOUSTON -- Originally from Honolulu, Hawaii, Daniel Ng started his art training as a fine art student at the University of Hawaii. In 1989 he moved to California to attend Cypress College in preparation for entry to Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, where he further extended his art training.
He is widely known from his years spent painting interior scenes in a style featuring dramatic colors and stylized designs in acrylics-on-canvas. Shapes and color inspire his designs, along with patterns found in the natural world. He tries to be innovative in his composition by stylizing the objects and simplifying the details of his landscapes in which the use of color is his main focus. As with his interior scenes, he continues to use bold, vivid colors. Influenced by the modern masters, Picasso, Matisse, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Chagall, it is his own interpretation of each individual scene that sets his paintings apart from typical landscape paintings. In recent months he has begun to work on canvas-covered wooden panels, which give him a firmness and resistance that enhance his control and shape definition.
As the featured artist for the Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park 2014, Ng has created a one-of-a-kind piece, inspired by Houston s iconic skyline, Memorial Park and the Bayou City Art Festival specifically for this event. He also incorporated the fundraiser within a festival theme, Art Heist: Radiant Orchid in this original piece, which he titled Delight of the City.
I am a big fan of Houston and Texas, so being named Featured Artist of the Bayou City Art Festival is a great honor, it s one of the top ten festivals in the nation, said Ng. He continued, Being asked to design the original artwork for the festival made it that much more special and I was able to use my interest in natural shapes as well as the designs and colors that emerge from Memorial Park and Houston to serve as my creative spark.
Ng currently lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, Sandra Wright. Daniel Ng s unique and vibrant style has been recognized by art aficionados at nationally recognized festivals from coast-to-coast.
