Alan Bull is an artist dividing his time between Greenport, NY and Newburyport, MA who is known for his colorful, boldly painted images in various media including watercolors, oils, acrylics, monotypes and pastels. Originally from Old Town, Maine, he received his BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art and worked as a muralist/portrait artist before spending 4 years as a studio assistant to glass sculptor Dan Dailey in Amesbury, Massachusetts. In 1992 he left the Dailey studio to create a series of monotypes at Fox Graphics in Merrimac, MA and began to exhibit extensively including shows in Boston, Cleveland, New York and London.  In 1996 he was the artist-in-residence at the William Steeple Davis House in Orient, NY and began to paint the landscape and farm imagery of Long Island's east end.

Recently Alan has turned his focus to several series-based projects, including paintings of Maine and Newburyport, MA, watercolor renderings of toy cars and trucks, paintings of a L.I. junkyard and farm vehicles, glass vases created in collaboration with Boar Glass of Greenport, and a suite of nudes.  His work has appeared in various publications including Architectural Digest, Dan's Papers and The New York Times, and is in numerous public and private collections.