Doug Auld

21/07/2025 55 min
Doug Auld

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You may have seen Doug Auld featured in the NY Times for his series of paintings, State of Grace, for which he received critical acclaim.https://www.nytimes.com/.../facing-their-scars-and...https://www.dougauld.com/state-of-graceDoug was one of fifty finalists in the 2007 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition in Wash DC at the Smithsonian. His painting "Shayla" was displayed at the National Portrait Gallery and was the first burn survivor portrait to be featured at the gallery.One of Doug's paintings depicts The Lady, witnessed by Chris Bledsoe.Among his collections of paintings are100 WhistleblowersSurreal Celebrity Portraits (made from swimming sea life)Religion in Uniformhttps://www.dougauld.com/As a musician and playwright, Doug has written a stage musical, Hypnotta, using Nancy Tremaine’s ET Contact as inspiration. www.hypnotta.comDoug has been featured on TV shows, documentaries, has been interviewed globally, and is in an upcoming movie, Interdimensional.Watch on youtube Alien Spirit with Sevhttps://www.youtube.com/@sevtokalienspirit/streams orKGRA Digital Broadcastinghttps://kgradb.com/alien-spirit-with-sev-tok/I will be there to live chatIf you join us, thank yousevplanetsev.com**********Doug Auld was born in Queens, NY and moved to New Jersey as a child. He had a love and fascination with nature and wildlife as well as mechanics. The second born in a family of four and son of a car dealer, he went to a trade high school and studied mechanics with the intention of taking over his Father's Chrysler dealership, but in his last year of high school he began studying piano and classical music, eventually writing his own original music.After a brief time in the music industry, he took up an interest in painting after visiting the "Salvador Dali Museum" in Cleveland, Ohio. Primarily self taught, Doug pursued Art and painting, eventually taking continuing education courses at the Art Students League, School of Visual Arts and The NY Academy in NYC. He presently lives and works on his creativity in Hoboken, NJ.

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