- Manhattan Abstract
- Daniel Castan (France)
- Oil on canvas
- 31" x 31"
Born in 1959 in France’s Dordogne region, Daniel spent years as a successful graphic designer before turning fully to painting at 40. Travels to New York and Hong Kong left him captivated by the city’s scale, with towering skylines, endless avenues, and colliding colors, and New York became his signature subject. Working by instinct with a palette knife and fast-drying alkyd oils, he builds and carves the paint almost like sculpture, then finishes each piece with a thick gloss varnish that makes the color glow.