Before Brad Teare was a professional illustrator, before he was an abstract artist, and before he became the revered Western landscape painter he is today, he was the drummer in a rock band that had one particular revelatory night.
Gigging in and around Oklahoma and Kansas with a lot of original music in their repertoire, the band, Frostfire, was playing one of its own songs in a rowdy, rough, and noisy bar. As their song continued, the noisy patrons grew less so, paying more attention to the band. When the song ended, the house erupted in applause.
While most of his bandmates saw the night as incentive to keep rocking into the future, Teare felt something else. “I said to myself, ‘That’s what I want to do with my paints someday,’” he says. “I hope that my compositions and the colors I use have that kind of power.”
Read the full article in the September/October 2024 issue.
Autumn Cascade
Oil
48″ by 48″
Autumn Serenity
Oil
48″ by 48″
