dug Nap bio

dug Nap is a self-taught artist who was born in Montpelier, Vermont, and always loved to draw. One of his favorite childhood memories is drawing cowboys with a friend.

dug started painting while a patient in the hospital and found it very theraputic. He attended various schools in Vermont, briefly went to a military prep school in New Jersey, and graduated from Johnson State College in Johnson, Vermont. Johnson is about 45 minutes from Stowe Craf Gallery. dug usually works in oils on birch plywood, although he occasionally works in acrylics or gouache. dug Nap currently lives in Burlington, Vermont in his media cave. You can learn more about dug nap and his art on this video:

dug is also currently working on a graphic novel, and occasionally creates new paintings.

When they are available you will find them on display at Stowe Craft & Design. At Stowe Craft Gallery, there is also a large collection of Nap's framed and unframed prints

dug has many sides, and is hard to categorize, although most of dug's work probably falls somewhere between the borders of folk art and outsider art,it often includes some of dug's wonderful, and occasionally, dark sense of humor.

dug especially likes to paint animals, and he also enjoys painting animals of the human kind. Many of dug's paintings have text. dug Nap's paintings are in many private collections. He has had a one man show at Webb& Parsons, and his work has been part of group exhibitions at the Outsider Art Fair in New York City. Several of dug's paintings were in an exhibit at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. dug did some bear illustrations for Jager Dipaola Kemp, for Merrell footwear, one of which won an award from Print Magazine. Below: dug Nap in his Studio