art alley

INSPIRED BY NATURE

Brad Brisbine

Brad Brisbine is displaying recent landscape oil paintings at Pybus Market’s Art Alley in December (Dec 1- Jan 1).

Brad took a class from painter Bob Graves at Wenatchee Valley College in the mid 70’s; but focused on an architectural career for the next 25 years before picking up the brush again.

Cascade high-lake photography has been a passion since high school, so painting gave another opportunity to express his love of nature. He is still excited to pull a colorful composition off a blank white canvas, and is grateful for the gift of channeling God’s glory.

Using an impressionistic, painterly realism, he paints his emotional connection to a special place, and looks for its healing qualities.

Mentors were Rod Weagant and the late Bill Reese. Workshop instructors include Ovanes Berberian, Kathryn Stats and Calvin Liang.

Brad designed the Apple Blossom Float in 1998, and was the Apple Blossom Festival and Festival of Trees artist in 2008. He has been selected as the official artist for the 2024 National Dahlia Show. Brad has been the Pybus Market Charitable Foundation architect since 2012.

His paintings can also be seen at Pybus’ McGregor Honey, the Concourse, Event Center, PMCF office, and the Pybus Huck patio. See more at bradbrisbine.com.

Brad most closely relates with the Early California Impressionists (1880-1940), who: “expressed the inherent goodness and the overwhelming majesty of Creation. Art was to be morally edifying, with positive, soul-uplifting imagery. Truth is in nature; the duty of the artist is to

reveal this truth. They adapted aspects of French Impressionism- grayless color, simplified detail, and the idea that light itself is subject matter”.

The show will feature Stehekin, Mission Ridge, Wenatchee Valley, Cascades, Moses Coulee, Montana and Maui