Daniel Craig was born in 1957 in Mankato, Minnesota. At the age of 20, he traveled eighty miles north to begin his formal art education at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Here, for the first time, he devoted all his creative energies to painting and drawing. Inspired by his love for the Old Masters, he began to develop a unique painting style he describes as “Natural Idealism.” In his work, Daniel creates a world not entirely real, yet is tied to the natural world, where forms are perfect, light imbued with magic, but all still within our realm of reality.