About the Artist

Artist Statement

The goal of my work is to portray the creative, curious, and adventurous spirit of humanity as well as its beauty with an optimistic view of the future through narrative paintings in a representational style depicting the innate sense of curiosity and optimism of children, scenes of idealized every day life set in an imagined, possible, near-future, and narrative landscapes featuring or integrated into science fiction elements. I often use rockets, astronauts, and near future settings either as symbols of optimism and a sense of adventure or as a lens through which to view our current world from a new perspective. I love to juxtapose large feats of human engineering and architecture against beautiful natural elements and landscapes, often integrating one completely within the other, in an attempt to show that these two forms of beauty not only can coexist, but ultimately compliment each other.

Bio

Bryan was born in 1975 in Salt Lake City Utah. He grew up drawing and painting, but also has had a lifelong fascination with space and engineering. After briefly studying Illustration at Utah State University and then Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah, he finally decided to pursue a career in Fine Art. He sold his first painting in 1998, and has been working professionally as a creator of original oil paintings full time for over 20 years. Bryan currently lives and works in Salt Lake City, UT.