• Skip to content
  • Jump to main navigation and login

Nav view search

Navigation

  • Home
  • Artists
  • News
  • Exhibitions
  • About

Search

Dave Dalton - Commission Painting Old Farmstead- SOLD - Oil on Canvas Framed 26 x 22 Santa Ynez Valley Vineyard SOLD - Oil on Canvas Framed 26 x 30 Above Villa Creek SOLD - Oil on Canvas 18 x 22 Framed Port San Luis SOLD - Oil on Linen 34 x 28 Framed Vineyard Arroyo  SOLD - Oil on Linen 31 x 42.5 Framed Gaviota Hillside SOLD - Oil on Linen 31 x 27 Framed Gaviota Pass-Sold - Oil on Canvas-Commission Arroyo SOLD - Detail of Arroyo Late Afternoon Clouds SOLD - Oil on Canvas 27 x 33 Framed Seasonal Creek SOLD - Oil on Canvas 26 x 30 Framed West Of Paso Robles SOLD - Oil On Canvas 30 x 36 Framed Springtime Grazing SOLD - Oil on Canvas 22 x 26 Framed Dark Grove SOLD - Oil on Canvas 18 x 22 Framed Long Shadows SOLD - Oil on Canvas 28 x 34 Framed Near St. Helena SOLD - Oil on Canvas 20 x 24 Framed Renewal of Spring SOLD - Oil on Canvas 30 x 35 Framed Rock Ground Creek SOLD - Oil on Canvas 18 x 22 Framed Weather Moving In SOLD - Original Oil on Canvas 20 x 24 Framed Early Autumn SOLD - Oil on Canvas Framed 30 x 42 Rancho Arroyo SOLD - Oil on Canvas 2020 31 X 43 Framed Summer Clouds SOLD - Oil on Canvas 2020 36 x 31 Framed Valley Pond SOLD - Oil on Canvas 30 x 40
Dave Dalton

David Dalton was born in Pontiac, Michigan in 1952. He grew up in California's Santa Clara valley in an artistic environment. His father, renowned artist, Lee Truax Dalton, taught David to draw, and David would watch his father paint.Dalton graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1977. During his time as a college student, he would work after class doing artwork on surfboards at the local board manufacturer. During a weekend visit to Carmel, David was particularly impressed by the exciting depictions of waves painted by California artist Alexander Dzigurski.After college, Dalton began teaching during the day, and painting at night. In 1978, he was able to begin painting full time, his work promoted by a prominent Los Angeles art gallery. He currently resides with his wife in the small Sierra foothill town of Coarsegold, California.
In the first decade of his painting career, Dalton specialized in oceans scenes. But his eye caught the beauty of the classic California landscape and he began to add scenes of oak shaded barns nestled into gentle rolling hillsides. The grandeur of the National Parks of the West were among his favorite subjects.Seascape or landscape, Dalton's paintings are characterized by astounding detail. Yet, the artist says he is more concerned with composition and the overall effect, rather than just dazzling the viewer with detail. Over the years his award winning paintings have earned him the respect of being named one of California's foremost land ans seascape artists.