A true outdoorsman, Brad draws inspiration from his love of the physical world and the organic forms found in Nature.
Brad’s work focuses predominately on painting landscapes in oil in a Neo-impressionistic style. However, his full body of work is wide-ranging in scope and medium. He spent years creating abstract steel sculptures, culminating in a series of multi-medium “cement paintings” that leverage techniques from his representational and abstract work. He has portrayed the human body in clay in many forms from portrait busts to life-size figure sculptures. He has found his artistic expression also in abstract paintings in oil, watercolor, and charcoal drawing, etching, woodcut, collage, and digital media. More recently, he has been creating pop art portraits in acrylic.
He has exhibited in a variety of venues over the past four decades. His work can be found in private collections in Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Maine.
Brad has hiked, backpacked and rock climbed around the world for most of his life. Each summer he returns to coastal Maine, a source of lifelong inspiration, to renew his personal connection to Nature.
Bradbury Mattes was born in Philadelphia and raised in Willistown, Pennsylvania. He received a BFA from Marlboro College, Vermont, and is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He is currently based in Pennsylvania when not painting on the coast of Maine.
