dug Nap is a self-taught oil painter, cartoonist, illustrator, designer, poet, musician, lyricist and performance artist who also creates greeting cards and prints.

dug Nap's art work is hard to categorize, although most of dug's work would probably fall somewhere between the borders of folk art and outsider art, and usually includes some of dug's wonderful, and occasionally dark sense of humor.

dug Nap's paintings are in many private collections and his work has been part of group exhibitions at The Outsider Art Fair in New York City, and several of dug's paintings were in an exhibit at The American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.

If you're in New York City you can now see some of dug Nap's oil paintings at the Frank J. Miele Gallery, located at 1086 Madison Avenue at 82nd Street..

dug Nap especially enjoys doing animal paintings, and can be commissioned to do pet portraits. dug also likes painting animals of the human kind. He is a native Vermonter, and lives in Burlington, Vermont.