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Brett Cassort
USA
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“Right now, as you read this, I would like you to please stop and take a deep breath, relax, and lower your shoulders. Take this moment to have gratitude for everything that is good in your life and smile!”
Brett Cassort is an International award-winning landscape artist who has covered the U.S., growing up in the Northeast and now calling Southern California home for over a decade. Living in the southwest has given Brett access to the wealth of natural beauty that surrounds him. The beaches, mountains and desert can all be experienced within a couple hour drive and provide so much inspiration for his work.
9 Saguaros | Oil
$2,999
36 X 48
The desert is one of my favorite places to drive through. It's quiet and peaceful and there's so much more to take in than initially meets the eye. It's a great place to get lost in the colors of both the landscape and the sky.
One of his favorite drives is through the desert. There’s a solitude about it which provides a natural meditative experience, but at the same time it’s bursting with life and color in not so obvious ways. It’s calming, peaceful, vibrant, and dangerous all at the same time depending on the time of year.
Beach Cruiser | Oil
$1,999
36 X 36
The beach towns share this great vibe with the balance of the calmness of the ocean on one side of the road and the bustling of the town on the other. You can choose your own escape.
Cloud structures that form over distant mountains can catch sunrises and sunsets at different angles. Often times those angles change the narrative by the minute giving the eye little time to differentiate. It’s in those moments that new ideas are sparked, captured by a dash camera and conceptualized into the composition of new work.
“We don’t stop and appreciate the good things in life as often as we should, especially in this tumultuous world.”
Having a very artistic mind from a young age grew over the years to experimenting with different mediums. As a kid Brett started drawing the animals from the family Outdoor Life Magazine. Everything from deer, elk, and moose to hawks and eagles. That drawing at an early age merged into abstracts experimenting with house paint from the basement.
Dirt Road to Paradise | Oil
$2,999
48 X 36
I feel like most people live somewhere on this road. You could already be in paradise, you could be on the road grinding your way to a better place, you could have made it to paradise and lost your way only to be working your way back. We are always chasing something even it's just to sit still.
I took this picture while driving west at dusk and I was just taken by the brilliant colors of the sky and how it cascaded over the sky. Even in the urban industrial part of Los Angeles that I was in at the time I realized all I had to do was look up and it completely changed the what one can focus on.
Boulevard of Hopes and Dreams | Oil
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36 X 48
House paint gave way to acrylic that became oil paint when he began studying under the graceful eye of Cheryl Kline at the Kline Academy of Fine Art in Culver City, California. There’s nothing more magical than when a student finds his teacher.
“Resiliency is a beautiful thing so keep traveling down those roads in front of you to discover all the adventures waiting out there, over the hill, around the bend, where the light is coming from.”
“You’ve travelled down many roads in your life to get to this point right here, right now. You’ve weathered storms, you’ve hit plenty of bumps and roadblocks along the way, but you shook it all off enough to be present in this very moment.”
It was five years of immersive study at Kline Academy that he learned the skills and techniques that you see in his work today. Trained as a classical fine art oil painter gave him the tools and skills to adapt and find his own style.
One Way Ticket | Oil
$2,999
36 X 48
Focusing on the future and the direction one is going is the energy behind this piece. Stop looking back, you're not going that way.
Brett’s Road Trip Series has been showcased in live juried gallery shows, online juried shows and galleries, and in the September 2022 issue of American Art Collector Magazine’s (Landscape Collector’s Focus).
Easy Living | Oil
$1,199
24 X 30
Your off the beaten path, you can take your time slowly appreciating the beauty of our natural world.
The Road Trip series has taken Brett on a journey reflecting on the commonality that we share as people. Many stories and experiences that show up in every day interactions are portrayed in his work. Composition that is heavily guided by light.
I grew up in a small dairy farming town that only offered big dreams in the form of imagination. Wherever you are you can dream and you can achieve that dream. It starts with a vision.
Destiny Awaits | Oil
$899
24 X 24
“My love for the natural world and the grittiness of life’s adventures on the road helped me to form my road trip/landscape combination.”
Passing Storm | Oil
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48 X 36
It's the middle of summer and you can see the clouds rolling in. Their dark and scary, but just as fast as they charge they are gone leaving behind a fresh glistening of rain and a calmness that allows you to take a breath and appreciate a fresh start to the day.
Using unusual angles and dark shades to allow a more surreal narrative to be formed as the barren expanse lingers in the mind’s eye. The creation of space and distance at the intersection of landscape and abstraction gives the work so much depth. It allows for a more ethereal quality to permeate the senses.
The southwest is one of my favorite places to go to just unplug and enjoy the natural world. Every time I look at this I go back there and it briefly fills that void until my next visit
Santa Fe | Oil
$1,599
40 X 30
Wherever you find yourself on this road called life, the many twists and turns that are steered through, hills that are climbed, storms that are weathered, bridges that are crossed, we search for those moments of peace and calmness in such a tumultuous world. As time passes, we experience all that life has to offer, adventure, challenge, hope, excitement, sadness, resiliency, and so many more. My hope is to meet you where you are on that road and you can experience your own journey.
The Shadows Speak | Oil
$1,999
40 X 30
A big city at night, after hours, the day is coming to an end and the bustling streets are quiet and empty. If you stop and listen the shadows can tell you all about the days events.
“My hope is to inspire you. To free you from struggle and to no longer look in the rear-view mirror, just focus on the road in front of you, do your best and show the world who you are. Now go shine!”
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