Bradley K P

Art to me is what water is to fish. I am comfortable when I create. I could swim around for hours in my paintings if I ever had the chance.
My father introduced oil painting to me when I was about 11 years old. I can always remember drawing and painting as a younger kid, but the oil painting is what really started it all for me. My first paintings were very basic two dimensional colors floating in space… all over space to be exact. Needless to say I have learned a lot about painting and composition in the last 20 + years.
For me, the most influential time artistically was my high school years. It was a time period that I made giant leaps in understanding how to put my mind and emotion onto canvas. Weaning back of forth between extremely abstract and surrealistic work. I was able to find an extreme appreciation for art in my life.
Towards the later years of my high school career, I took a few water color classes at MIAD. I find that working with different mediums can serious complement my work in ways that would not otherwise be discovered.
Once I finished high school I continued on to Columbia College Chicago in attempt to obtain my BFA in painting. I participated in school at Columbia for about a year and a half before I decid...

General Studies art and design high school - 1999 - 2003
MIAD watercolor classes - 1999-2002
Columbia College Chicago - 2003 - 2004