Dylan Swan’s
Art Story
Dylan Swan paints real places — mostly the kind you’d walk past without noticing, until he shows you how much quiet poetry was hiding there all along.
Cafés. Street corners. Rows of houses in a certain kind of light. He captures them with a distinctive, slightly impressionistic style and a sincere fondness for the ordinary. His work is less about spectacle and more about belonging — to a place, a moment, or a muffin at just the right café.
Born in Ontario and now based in Nova Scotia, Dylan splits his time between painting and massage therapy — one job helps people feel better, the other helps him make sense of the world. Both require intuition, attention to detail, and occasionally explaining what’s wrong with someone’s shoulder.
When he’s not in his Bridgewater studio, he’s building a home with his wife in the countryside, possibly on a ladder, possibly wondering where he left the paintbrush. His vision? A quiet life, a good coffee, and a light-filled studio up on the hill.
Dylan’s work is represented by The Crown & Press Gallery in Hamilton, Ontario — a beautiful space that combines art and coffee (conveniently legitimizing every muffin as research). They handle all sales of originals and prints, and they’re lovely people to deal with.
