Donald Beal received an MFA from Parsons School of Design in 1983. In 1985 he moved to Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he married photographer Khristine Hopkins. He has been a Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts in North Dartmouth from 1999 to 2015, and he continues to work and paint on Cape Cod and greater New England. "Donald Beal's work breaks new ground in a gentle but inviting manner; his use of color and light are only devices designed to accent his unique sense of observation. What sets Beal's expression apart from those of his predecessors, however, is the lens from which he gazes. His perspective of nature is, in a sobering yet enlightening style, reflective of himself." Donald Beal was born in 1959 in Syracuse, New York, and grew up in Westford, Massachusetts. He studied painting at the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New York, and received an MFA from Parsons School of Design in 1983. In 1985 he moved to Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he married photographer Khristine Hopkins. They have a son, Max. Beal has been a Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts in North Dartmouth since 1999. He continues to live and paint in Provincetown. He is a 2013 recipient of The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Foundation Grant. Interview with Donald Beal, Painting Perceptions, March 2017 "Sometimes the landscapes he paints are based on real locations, and other times they’re just 'stuff I chase around on a canvas until an image shows up,' Beal says. 'They come out of thin air — eventually.'. 'Most people think all paintings are based on a plan,' Beal says, 'and sometimes they are. But other times it’s as if a three-legged priest makes an entrance and surprises the artist.'" Read the full review, "The Accidental Landscapes