Don Dernovich is from Rock Springs, Wyoming. He graduated with Bachelors and Masters degrees from the University of Wyoming and a Masters of Fine Arts degree from Fort Hays State University in Kansas. In addition he continues to take painting workshops and seminars and has studied with Mel Gerhold, Charles Cross and Reynold Brown.

Dernovich also served two years in the Army, was an illustrator in Colorado, a coal miner in Wyoming, and has been an art educator for many years.

He has exhibited in many juried exhibitions, including Annual Arts for the Parks, National Oil Painters of America, National Academy of Design, American Watercolor Society International, National Watercolor Society, Rocky Mountain National, Waterc...