Contact Information
Please feel free to contact me by email if you have any questions or comments.
About the Artist
Douglas Orr Zeigler was born in Dixon, Illinois and attended The University of Chicago and The Art Institute of Chicago (BFA 1967).
At The Art Institute, he studied drawing, painting and design with several European emigre faculty who embodied the traditional disciplines. There, he developed an approach to his individual vision which is grounded in representation, but also taps expressive, spontaneous impulses—and yields to immediate responses of color, line, form and texture.
Zeigler works outdoors, “plein-air”, as well as in his studio in Richmond’s West End.
Commissions
The artist accepts commissions for a wide variety of artwork: portraits, landscapes, still lifes, marine scenes, abstracts—virtually anything is possible. Through a step-by-step process including preliminary sketches and color studies, a delightful result is almost guaranteed. What could be simpler! Email or call to discuss your preferences.
Purchase
If you wish to acquire one or more of my paintings, please contact me by email. It can be a very simple process.
Artist’s Statement
The visual artist has a responsibility to be faithful to his will to create. In my work, I attempt to go to those places where my vision takes form by means of paint on canvas, or pigmented water on paper. Nature is my starting point, but the subconscious guides my response to what I “know” or “see” before me. If others share for a moment what I experience through these challenges then my work is successful.