Raised in a small farming community nestled under the Tetons in the upper
Snake Valley of Southeastern Idaho, Bruce Brainard draws inspiration from the
early American Landscape artist George Inness and artists associated with the
Luminist movement, and the spiritual Romanticist Caspar David Friedrich. Adding
his own distinctive contemporary perspective, he creates landscapes and
seascapes metaphorically, using symbols and archetypes.
Bruce has worked professionally as an artist for over for over 25 years and
his work is included in many collections throughout the United States.
Bruce loves to paint and feels that art can have great power. He believes
as George Inniss said that art is "a language to express thought " and as
Picasso said, "The purpose of art is to express the great emotions." He has
the found the most profound emotions aren't necessarily the loud, the
sentimental, or even the profane, but rather the quiet, the authentic , and
the sacred. He uses the landscape and seascape to try and express these
emotions.