Watercolor artist and South Carolina native Dale Cochran has a passion for revealing the uniqueness and beauty in things seemingly plain, illuminating the stories and spirits behind the ordinary -- an old barn, a basket of pecans, a listless smile, a crayon on pavement.
Inspired by his father who moonlighted as a sign painter, Dale began his 27-year art career as an illustrator, penning and sketching cartoons, caricatures and line drawings for newspapers and other mediums. Although he received formal art training at Anderson College and Winthrop University, it was only after taking a class at the Anderson Arts Center that he found his true artistic calling: watercolor.
“With watercolor, experience is fluid ... not just in the brush strokes themselves, but in the interpretation of feeling and experience, of emotion and connection,” says Dale.
Outside of painting commissioned portraits and exhibiting at galleries across the Southeast, Dale works as a creative director at Clemson University. |
