Danielle Winger was born in Reno, NV USA and spent her early life moving throughout the United States, including 8 states and 14 cities. Danielles received her Bachelor of Science in Textiles and Design from Middle Tennessee State University and her Masters of Fine Art in Painting from East Tennessee State University. Danielle spent her childhood summers returning to the same national park in Northern California and her love of mountains grew deeper during her years spent living in the Smoky Mountains. Danielle's paintings regularly reference these places in sentimental and nostalgic ways, seeing the world through the eyes of a child-large and unknown and ripe for adventure.
'In my paintings, I honor the landscape as itself and as a metaphor. Mountains become places of ascension, inwardness and grace. Desert as indifference. Anthropomorphic trees light up in moonlight, reflected in water that has no boundaries but holds memory all the same. Untamed and wild landscape, in all its apathy, elicits a primal pull to enter it, to be joined with it, to know it intimately. Seeking the solace of empty places, I create intensely personal portraits of quiet, meditative spaces that encourage contemplation, reflection and investigation of self, sublimity and the divine.' - Danielle Winger.