Brian W. Hinkle

"Woman Writing II"

canvas on oil,  26 x 20 in.

Brian W. Hinkle lives and paints in Wichita, Kansas.  When he's not painting, Brian works as Assistant Curator at the Wichita Center for the Arts, where he also teaches painting, drawing, portraiture, and enameling.  He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa with a bachelors degree in Mathematics.  He received his M.F.A. degree in painting from Wichita State University in 1992.  Three of his paintings were displayed in the Biennale Internazionale Dell'Arte Contemporanea in Florence, Italy in December, 2003.

Brian's work as an artist has been strongly influenced by the early masters of the Northern Renaissance.  His interest in Flemish panel painting led him to study in 2001 at the Metropolitan Museum in New York.  He works in oils using traditional glazing techniques with an eye for detail, and an obsession with archival quality.  Brian's paintings are made to last through the centuries, not merely into the next decade.

Brian paints autobiographical images sprinkled with art historical references and steeped in a mysterious spiritual aura.  He portrays himself, his wife (and professional Psychic) Cynthia, his cat Sebastian, and the varied aspects of his day to day life as the players and events in his mystical, whimsical dream world.  While his artwork has a strongly personal dimension, many viewers resonate with more universal symbolic themes which encourage each viewer to interpret the painting in relation to their own life experience.

"Cardinal and Blue Jay"

oil on panel,  18 x 23 in.

"Woman With Green Dress"

oil on panel,  14 x 11 in.

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