Since he created the first painting of his Treehouse Collection, Dan Fuller has had a growing fan base because he uses an always different Treehouse in each of his works.  But the charm is, he rarely uses a Treehouse as his subject but as a vehicle in order to portray his subject. Since a tree house is really a state of mind and can be anything one wants it to be, it knows no limitations. So Dan adopted that freedom in order to portray any subject that intrigues him, in whatever style or school that best captures its essence. Indeed using a tree house as his vehicle, even inspires him to paint subjects no one has ever considered as such.

For years he had been doing paintings based on ideas, and using whatever technique that worked best for the subject, but he knew they would never be totally accepted. In fact repeatedly changing techniques is usually a sign of artistic immaturity, so Dan had to find a way to overcome that limitation. Then one late Fall day in upstate New York, he did a plein air landscape that included a tree with a platform suported by its branches, so Dan added it, but he thought of it as merely an incidental point of interest; but he didn't think it had any importance other than as an addition to the ambience of the painting.

He had absolutely no clue where that would lead him.

That evening he started an experimental watercolor of a tree looking up through its branches, but when its sketch was completed, he felt it needed more. So influenced by the simple platform in the tree from that afternoon, he added that, but it stull needed more, so he put a shack on it, and that looked a lot like a fisherman's shack he'd painted in Rockport Massachusetts a few weeks earlier. So he made the platform into a pier by adding some log pilings then, thinking "Why not?' he put a couple of boats floating in the air beside it. And each object he added suggested others, so that painting virtually morphed into being "The Fisherman's Treehouse, the first painting of the Treehouse Collection.

Of course it was partly the result of Dan's almost overwhelming desire to be able to paint any subject in any school or technique he chose, as he had been. But those paintings lacked a unifying factor, so  they all looked like they had been painted by different artists. Since that evening, through using a treehouse in each of his paintings, they are unforgetable. 

Their concept is unique, therefore each painting is unique.  His use of a treehouse in the way he does is protected by the intellectual property laws.

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