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Brad Holt
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September Storms
in Escalante, 12x16
Oil on Board
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Kanarra Cliffs, 8x8
Oil on Board
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Black Ridge from
Leeds, 9x12
Oil on Board
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Cedar Breaks from
the North, 12x12
Oil on Board
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Escalante Farm,
16x20 Oil on Board
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Escalante River
Canyon, 9x12
Oil on board
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Storm Over House
Rock Valley, 9x12,
Oil on Board
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Cedar Canyon, 9x12
Oil on Board
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Escalante
Canyon Walls,
12x9
Oil on Board
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Blue Escalante
20x16
Oil on Canvas
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Storm and Juniper,
16x12, Oil on Board
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Storm Over Escalante,
24x30, Oil on Canvas
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Artist Statement
I became interested in painting at a young age. I was fascinated with the images of
the surrealists, especially with those of Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, and Yves
Tanguay in particular. I learned the mechanics of painting from a very accomplished
landscape painter, Jimmy Jones. I was fortunate that this prominent southern Utah
artist was a close friend of my parents.
And then after a good start is seems as if I spent the next couple of decades trying
to emulate a camera. I was always striving for more detail, more perfect proportion
and modeling, a closer representation of the physical world. And I was miserable.
The more realistic I got, the less I enjoyed the process, painting became a chore.
For a number of years I stopped painting altogether, and instead concentrated on
music. But I think that this period served me well in a couple of respects: I became
very fluent in the craft of drawing and painting, and I came to realize that perfect
control and detail are as empty and pointless in the pursuit of Art as they are in the
rest of life.
I regained the joy of painting when I stopped trying to record the world, and learned
to let each painting cohere within itself as an object of beauty, though a thoughtful
manipulation of the pure plastic elements of design.
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Biography
J. Brad Holt grew up in Cedar City Utah. He is a graduate of Cedar City High
School, and Southern Utah University. He spent childhood summers working on his
Grandfathers ranch in Orderville Utah, hauling hay and punching cows. At age
seventeen he joined the Utah Army National Guard, and served for the next twenty
years as a member of HHB 2/222 FA BN. Brad is a musician specializing in Early
woodwinds. He spent several seasons as a musician/performer with the Utah
Shakespearean Festival in Cedar City Utah.
Juried Awards and Exhibitions
2008 84th Annual Spring Salon, Springville Museum of Art, Springville Utah.
2008 21st Annual Sears Invitational. Sears Gallery, Eccles Fine Art Center, Dixie State
College, St George, UT
2006 1st Place Prize, Oil/acrylic, Everett Ruess Plein Air Competition, Escalante
Canyons Art Festival
2005 2nd Place Prize, oil/acrylic, Everett Ruess Plein Air Competition, Escalante
Canyons Art Festival.
2005 Purchase Award, Cedar City Art Committee annual Exhibition, Cedar City Public
Library.
1997 Top 200, Art For The Parks Annual Competition, Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
1996 Top 100, Art For the Parks Annual Competition and Traveling Exhibition,
Jackson Hole, WY
Exhibits
2005 to
present Numerous multi-artist exhibitions. Blue Sage Gallery, Cedar City, Utah
2006 Cedar City Art Committee Annual Exhibition, Braithwaite Gallery, Southern Utah
University, Cedar City
2006 One Man Show, Blue Sage Gallery, Cedar City, Utah.
2003 Two Man Show (w/Kate Starling), Randall L. Jones Theater Foyer, Utah
Shakespearean Festival, Cedar City
1995 One man show, Braithwaite Gallery, Southern Utah University, Cedar City
1994 Three large pieces for permanent exhibition, Cedar City High School Centennial
Library project.
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