“Helping you to curate your story while telling mine.
I create art for the sake of my family, for the joy of it, and to strike at the heart. ”
THANK YOU:
When you buy one of my paintings you are directly supporting my family. Thanks for that. I have included our most recent family photo so you can see just who your purchase is impacting.
GET TO KNOW ME:
I love art, and I want you to love it too. I first developed an interest in art when I was about ten years old. My father was decent with a pencil and he taught me a few things. A few years later my mother was driving me to private art lessons. But you aren't here for a history lesson.
Most of what you will see available here are black and white portraits. I never even wanted to paint people. It stressed me out, and I was certainly out of my depth. In the fall of 2018, I did a ballet series, and that series changed my artistic direction. First of all, I realized how deeply I loved painting the human form. People are fascinating. Second, the ballet series, as a collection, highlighted my journey through depression. So many people connected to the emotional aspect of the series I decided I wanted to be more proactive in telling stories. That led me to the place where black and white portraits became my passion. I wanted to highlight all the stories. Some of my paintings are happy, some are a bit dark, most of them are stories wrapped up in canvas and acrylic paint.
By the way, I chose black and white for two reasons. One, I love color and I wanted to challenge myself to try something new. Two, both of my boys are colorblind and I realized we never really saw the same thing in my work. Black and white pieces give us the chance to have our perception of a piece be the same. I still sneak in tons of color in the underpaintings, but I'll talk more about that on my blog page. Of course, I can't ever quit painting colorful animals; I just love them too much.
I've been working on art as a career since 2015. It has been both exhilarating and terrifying, but I wouldn't change a thing. I'm all in, push in all the chips, burn the ships, swan dive into the deep end, hold your breath, hit the ground running, don't look back. I'm ready for an adventure. I hope you'll tag along.
Thanks for reading this far. I appreciate you as a person, a fan, a secret stalker, an artistic beginner, a fellow creative, a client, a customer, or a collector. I hope you'll find a piece you can't live without. -Ryan Todd Dalgliesh
Become a Collector/Historian
Art exists as a fundamental part of our world and culture. Art tells stories and keeps history. Art drives conversation and dreams. We would do well to stand more often in quiet museum halls and working art studios. In doing so, we drink in snapshots of the artist, their work, their mood, their struggles, and their victories.
Learn to collect art. When you become an art collector you curate your private museum; a visual library built of acrylic, oils, canvas, and bronze that not only tells rich stories of the artist(s) but the collector as well.
I'll keep painting what's in my heart, and one day there will be a piece that connects with yours. Then we will come together as artist and collector each with a bit more insight into the other.