Dale TerBush paints with the goal of celebrating life by "transforming a beautiful image into something that is purely spiritual and poetic." He wants his art to speak for itself; elegant and mysterious, exciting and bold--- scenes of "mesmerizing magic".

TerBush was born in Elmhurst a suburb of Chicago. Soon thereafter his family moved to Southern California's San Fernando Valley. As a young child he began painting but getting to the point of painting exclusively proved challenging, but a learning process. Initially trying to find "a real job," he was fortunate to find a career in design with a large chain of restaurants that kept him centered in a facet of the art world.

Painting a mural on a focal wall of a restaurant, he ...