Skip Dyrda specializes in fooling people...people's eyes, that is. Using a technique called Trompe L'oeil, Skip has painted realistic murals on walls, floors, ceilings, both inside and outside, as well as canvas's in residences and business's from St. Armand's Circle to Buenos Aries. His work is intended to please and surprise and typically catches the viewer off guard, causing them to try to figure out exactly what they are looking at.....is it real...or not.

Originally from South East PA, Skip initially was more interested in race cars but started his art career drawing pictures of the local popular drivers and selling them all over the North East US. After a few years, he finally decided to build and drive his own cars for about 3 years after which he returned to the race car art he started several years earlier. Skip moved to Sarasota, Florida in the early 90's and was hired as an artist in an 'art factory' in a nearby town. After two years of working as an artist for someone else, he then decided to go it alone and has been a self employed artist ever since.

Skip is locally known, in Sarasota, FL, for painting the fifty foot high Crisp Building and when he isn’t away painting a large (or small) mural, he can be found in his studio and gallery in the Towles Court Arts District where he lives with his wife and daughter. Additionally, Skip frequently works alongside notable Interior Design professionals and Architects on custom commissioned fine art projects for design clients in both residential and corporate settings recently completing a series of 21 public murals in Downtown Historic Stuart, Florida. His custom murals have garnered significant media attention, such as being featured on HGTV’s Modern Masters.