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:: Literary Art ::
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Brett Wilson
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MEDIA COVERAGE C.S. Independent
Brett Wilson, born in Denver, Colorado, is now 32 years old, he has been painting for the past seventeen years. He is a self taught artist, whose mediums include chalk, charcoal, and pencil, but his primary passion has been oil on wood panels. His inspiration for incredible creative expression is to “create a meaningful positive image that uplifts and intrigues the human spirit.” Although Brett loves to paint and create new art, his other greatest achievements include his relationship with his wife Kristie, of six years, and his three beautiful children.
Although Brett has shown in several galleries in Houston, TX, and has been in a perennial show for the past five years at the Blue Star, this is his debut show in Colorado Springs. He wishes to enter the Colorado Springs art scene with a brilliant showing!
Artist’s Statement
I am intrigued by how one can take simple objects or images and juxtapose them to evoke connections and suggest metaphors or even elude spiritual truths.
I strive to paint images that need to be looked at more than once, each time discovering more; wanting the viewer to consider the possible relationships of scenes and objects. There is not necessarily an overt meaning and although the painting might seem on the surface disparate and broken, there is a continuity to be discovered.
I found the broken look of collage appealing as a compositional construct because it requires the viewer’s interpretation to become whole. Meanings emerge as the viewer draws from personal references.
Like piecing together a puzzle, there is a process of discovery. Scenes, people and objects combine into a moment where similarities and connotations are explored. I feel that certain images and objects can have universal implications when combined. Mysteries surface of which I believe are universally relevant -like love, mercy, compassion, tolerance, truth, restoration, transformation, unity, sacrifice and healing.
In an art world which often seeks to deface and explore suffering and in an age when savagery is assumed and suspicion inflicts, I choose to direct attention to how or when such things are overcome. I focus on those concepts that inspire positive change and seek to celebrate those traits in humanity that elevate the soul because I believe that what you choose to focus on can define or even become your reality. Art, for me, a process of exploring commonalities to find a modern composition for universally relevant truths.
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