ARTIST STATEMENT

Artist Brandon Steen paints highly detailed landscapes on wood panels. Drawn not to just the mundane, his interest lies in the beauty within it. A humble landscape painter, his painting subject always speaks to him and is caught with his keen eye. Steen’s interest is founded in structures and how they relate to its surroundings and the visible evidence of the structure having stood witness to time unfold around it. 

Brandon has had many bull terrier companions over the years beginning with Clancy. He attributes his life to his childhood dog Tiger who pulled him out of the marsh from drowning behind his childhood beach house on Lake Erie. The bull terrier has become his muse, joining him in the studio while working on hundreds of paintings. The artist's current dogs are painted into compositions creating both dialogue and tension. Birds are also depicted into his art, as a child Brandon observed the thousands of migrating birds making there way through Canada’s most southern point.

Painting for several decades, Brandon began painting pop surrealism showing in group and solo shows throughout North America and Internationally. During this time two characters came to him in a dream, Abe Weiner and Happy the bull terrier. They have been with him ever since, being painted like Easter eggs into his compositions. Be sure to look for them while viewing his paintings.

Born in 1970 in the small town of Leamington, Ontario. For nearly a decade Steen's paintings have become highly sought after as a Canadian artist. Paintings have been placed in private and corporate collections and he has shown in both solo and group shows. He lives and works from his barn studio in the Eastern Northumberland Hills of Ontario with his artist wife Janie and their English bull terriers Dolores and Paddy.

Brandon is represented by the prestigious Roberts Gallery of Toronto