Explore Brian's Art

These paintings are the newest chapter of a long, winding creative life — one that started with clay in a college pottery class, moved through decades of poetry, myth, and storytelling, and has landed, now at 76, in color and collage on wood panels.

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I came to abstract painting the way I've come to everything I've loved: curious, a little unsure, and willing to risk it. My teachers live in the Bauhaus (Kandinsky, Klee, Feininger) and in the old stories: tricksters, thresholds, Iron John, the quiet poems of William Stafford and David Wagoner. Somewhere between those worlds, the paintings arrive.

 

What I hope for you, standing in front of one of these pieces, is simple. I hope you feel curious. I hope you find a corner of the painting that resonates — a color, a shape, a mystery — and that it softens something in you. I hope it reminds you that you can make things too.

 

Creativity, to me, is doing. The brush, the pallet knife, the mark. The willingness to start.

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Look around. Ask me anything. I'm so glad you're here.