David Dornan is a painter of profound visual rigor whose work transforms everyday objects such as brushes, paint tubes, cans, flowers into compelling explorations of color, form, and light. Rather than arranging still-life subjects from the natural world, Dornan builds imagery from paint itself, allowing shapes and compositions to emerge through an instinctive process that pushes between abstraction and representation. His expressive still life paintings elevate the ordinary into charged visual encounters where texture, gesture, and surface dynamics animate familiar objects with monumentality and energy. “It is all about process and discovery that keeps me engaged. I am obsessed by a process that involves the fundamental visceral interaction of the surface and the paint and by finding more and more efficient ways to make that happen.”, Dornan says.

David Dornan is an award -winning artist who has exhibited nationally for over twenty years. His artwork exists in public and private collections throughout the United States. With an MFA from Arizona State University, he resigned a seventeen-year university faculty position to pursue his painting career full time. Dornan currently resides in Helper, Utah where he continues to mentor emerging and established artists alike through a renowned, long- running intensive workshop known as Helper Art Workshops, which have played a crucial role in shaping the town’s identity as a cultural and artistic hub.