Dean Sickler
Director of Dundean Studios
Dean Sickler is the owner and founder (1986) of Dundean Studios and teaches at all levels in faux finishing, specialty finishes and venetian plaster instructions. He has been in the painting and decorating business for over 30 years, having executed faux finish and art commissions from Beverly Hills to Fifth Ave.
Dean was a painting contractor in Los Angeles for 4 years after
he earned his journeyman's card in painting in 1979. He apprenticed
for two years from 1983-85 with Grace Darby: one of the original
Masters from the Isabel O'Neil Studio in NY City. Classes were taken
at the Day Studio in San Fransisco in 1984-85. In Miami, Dean worked
for two years under the guidance of Master Conservator, Emilio Cianfoni,
and is responsible for many architectural and antique restorations
at the Vizcaya Museum in Miami. He has recently worked at the Edison
Mansion in Llewellen Park and the Willow House in Morristown expertly
matching paint colors, restoring decorative art and architecture.
He has been commissioned to render the Port'or and Red Levanto marbles
at the new Visitors Wing at the U.S. Capitol.
He has worked for years as a student and as a collegue of Patrick
LaHeyne of Belgium who is considered to be one of the finest Decorative
Artists in the world.
Dean earned a B.A degree in Art and Art History
from the University of Toronto and Sheridan College. (1994).
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Dundean Studios in it's present form was opened in 1998 as a decorative
arts teaching, supply and working studio.
Dean presently teaches the Faux Design classes (all levels), Advanced Marbling & Wood Graining, Faux Essentials, Color Theory and Design, Trompe l'Oeil, Painted Furniture, and the Venetian Plaster classes.
In addition to being the core instructor at Dundean Studios, his
teaching credentials include courses and workshops in faux finishes
and decorative painting at the University of Toronto - Sheridan
Art College, The Isabel O'Neil Studio in New York, Courses at the
SALI Convention, The Faux Expo, The PDCA's PACE Convention and MAC University, scenic art instruction for high
school art programs, guest lectures on faux arts and art history,
and the teaching of hundreds of workshops around the country as
guest lecturer on art history, color theory, design and the faux
arts.
The studio is active in Painting
and Decorating Contractors of America, Professional
Decorative Painters Association, is an American
Society Of Interior Designers Industry Partner, SALI,
National Trust for Historic
Preservation, Scenic Art for local playhouses and High Schools
and numerous charities.
Dean is the immediate-past President of the Mid-Atlantic Faux and
Decorative Artisan chapter of the PDCA: is an alternate on the NJ
District PDCA Board and is the President of the Decorative Alliance
Forum. He is currently a board member of the Professional Decorative
Painters Association.
Dean is also a member of the International
Decorative Painters Salon and is proud to be able to
invite top European talent to teach guest workshops at the studio.
He has studied with Yannick Guegan, Pierre Lafumat, Patrick Laheyne
and others. His recent work displayed at the International Salon
in Utrecht was selected to remain on display at the Escher Museum
in the Hague.
High School Theater Design Workshops
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