Dan Woodward (1943)
is a long-time artist based in Rolla, Missouri, painting primarily in oils. He is also a founding member of Arts Rolla and The Local Color group there. He is currently on the Board of Governors of the St. Louis Artists' Guild. As a colorist/realist, Woodward is primarily involved with capturing the atmosphere of a scene. Each latitude has its different light, as does each day of a season, and recreating that light is his life's ambition apart from his choice of subject matter. He takes pleasure recording the quickly vanishing world of natural wilderness and historical identity.

Dan believes, "The best quality an artist can cultivate is a good eye for light and color; a clear perception of the world around him. It is a lifetime's education; a continuing joyful process."

His painting journeys took him from Missouri to California and Mexico from 1961-80, to the Vietnam War in the Far East in 1968-69, to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Turkey in 1981-84, and to South Africa in 2004 resulting in the inspiration for many original paintings and sketches of those mysterious and rapidly changing lands.