Brent was born in Santa Rosa in Sonoma County, CA and has lived there most of his life among the rolling hills and beautiful Oaks.  He has always been drawn to explore the land and all it has to offer, whether to seek refuge from the distractions of life, or to sketch and learn from its nature.  Brent has painted in oils and has been drawing for many years, even as a young child.  He graduated from the Academy of Art in San Francisco in 2007 with a major in illustration and a minor in fine arts. 

More recently he has been inspired by the Eastern arts, in particular the ancient Chinese artists of the Yuan period who rendered with inks, on expressive oriental papers like silk and mulberry.  In contrast to traditional western art, which often focuses on external beauty and photo-realistic representational rendering, eastern artists of this period sought to express a deeper meaning behind the subject and the inner artist.

Practicing spirituality and having a close relationship with nature one seeks a harmony with the oneness that connects us all.  Painting with brush, inks and paint, on paper and canvas; one learns to appreciate these tools. Building structure, giving form to the formless and often unexplainable, this is art.  Painting becomes a means to communicate and share feelings, thoughts- emotions about one's subject and inner being, the brush then simply then is just a means to render that expression.

website: www.brenthermsmeyer.net