Welcome to my world.
I paint what it feels like to live, how beauty, loss, and memory weave themselves through our days. My work blends classical oil technique with a touch of the surreal, using familiar imagery in unexpected ways to tell stories that feel both personal and universal
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Each piece is built slowly and intentionally, layer by layer. I start by hand preparing the canvas, then let the color and light build over time until the emotion finds its shape. Beneath the surface of every painting are fragments of memory, longing, and quiet hope translated into something meant to last.
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The Sands of Time began during long nights and still moments, born from the ache of watching life move too quickly. Every painting in this series holds a piece of that reflection, some tender, some playful, all reminders that the past does not disappear. It moves with us, shaping who we become.
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This collection is still unfolding. Each new work deepens the story, carrying forward the same sense of time and meaning that inspired the first. To live with one is to hold a fragment of that story, preserved.
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If you would like to learn more about my journey and professional work, you can continue below.
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"Today you do not get more time. But you can become more with the time you have.". —Dani
The Artist's Journey
I’ve always been an artist. But for a long time, I didn’t lead with it.
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Life had other plans, other roles to play, other people to take care of. But the pull to create never left. It just waited. Quietly. Patiently.
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Eventually, I stopped pushing it aside. I picked up the brush again, and everything began to shift. Not just in how I painted, but in why I was painting at all.
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The more I said yes to that part of me, the more everything else started to make sense.
Professional Highlights
My work has been collected in the U.S. and internationally, and has been exhibited in galleries across the country.
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Teaching myself to paint with my non-dominant hand during a long recovery season deepened my connection to the creative process. It reminded me that art is not only a gift it’s a responsibility
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Art isn’t just something I just do. It’s something I am in a way, it's been a part of me for as long as I can remember and it is how I see and interpret the world.
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This isn’t a fast studio or a flashy production. It’s a place for meaning, beauty, and the kind of work that carries weight. Every piece I create is part of my legacy, a quiet offering meant to outlive me, to speak when I’m no longer here. This is my calling, and I take it seriously.
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— Dani Abbott
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