Artist Dean Morrissey is best known for his beautiful paintings of Father Christmas with their rich colors and old world charm.
Dean is also the author and illustrator of the best-selling book Ship of Dreams, which has sold almost half a million copies so far. Ship of Dreams was #3 on the NY Times Best-Seller List, and was called "magnificent" by USA Today.
Saks Fifth Avenue has used the story and it's images to decorate their Holiday windows Dean has been painting full-time since the '70s. He was an award-winning book cover illustrator for many New York publishers before writing and illustrating his own book, Ship of Dreams.
Several of Dean's fine art paintings have been made into limited editions by The Greenwich Workshop, which have sold out at the publisher..