About

Daniel has a degree from Tufts University and a certificate from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has created a range of art including painting, ceramic, sculpture, and drawing. The COVID epidemic rekindled his interest in urban sketching. His work documenting casitas — vernacular Puerto Rican gardens in NYC — has been exhibited in Museo Del Barrio and Ramapo College. In 2021, he was the only American of four awardees to receive an Urban Sketchers Reportage Grant for 2021 for his project “The Shifting Landscapes of Despair, Hope, Survival and Persistence.“

A landscape architect, Daniel's firm, Winterbottom Design Inc., focuses their practice on healing/restorative gardens. He has been published widely in Northwest Public Health, Places, the New York Times, Seattle Times, Seattle P.I., and Landscape Architecture Magazine. He has authored “Wood in the Landscape” and has contributed to several books on sustainable design, community gardens, therapeutic landscapes and community service learning. He has completed projects in Seattle, New York City, Bedford Hills New York, Mexico, Guatemala, Bosnia/Herzegovina, and Croatia. In 2006 he developed the Healing Garden Certificate program at the University of Washington.