Who is the Artist…

Over the past number of years oil painting has become a passion for Bryan. After suggestions from other family artists, going back four generations, he began painting in January 2013. Self-taught, he paints what he enjoys in life, pop culture and whatever excites the artist inside him. He continues to expand his perspectives with oil techniques, photography and other mediums.  Bryan is originally from Beech Grove, IN a suburb of Indianapolis. Since 2015 he and his family have lived in Terre Haute, IN.

How He became an Artist…

My Great Grandmother was an artist. She encouraged and taught my mother to paint and after retirement my Grandfather took up oil painting completing three generations. For ten years prior to 2013 my mother had been encouraging me to join in the family tradition. While discussing the holidays, she was asking about gift options and as always I said, she did not need to bother with a gift, but what came out was “okay I’ll give painting a try”. I asked her to put together some hand-me-down paints, brushes and canvas, she was no longer using and I would see what my hands could do. Still nervous that I had no artistic talent and having no formal art class since I was a kid, I let the supplies sit in the corner for a month looking at them every day until I had the courage to put paint to canvas. After watching a couple of Bob Ross Joy of Painting episodes I sat down to paint my first piece in January of 2013. Hundreds of pieces later you could say the rest is history…

What are some Inspirations…

Bryan paints what he enjoys in life. It might be from pop culture or from observing interesting things around him. It has come from music, television, movies and of course anything that catches his eye. "I have learned something new from every painting I have ever done. As I get older, I find the artist in me has come to the forefront." Bryan looks to expanding the everyday things he always did into pieces of art. "In the business world, I am very process and detailed oriented so when it comes to being creative I have to let this go, look beyond the how to do it and enjoy the process of just letting the brush work its magic." Very few of his paintings overlap in what they represent but still have a distinct style. He likes to call his art style, “Bryanism”.

Bryan loves traveling and specifically visiting National Parks & Monuments. While reading National Parks Magazine, he came across an article for the See America Poster Project and immediate wanted to be involved. The first choice was Badlands National Park. On New Year’s Day 2014 he sat down and painted what became his first contribution.  As an amateur photographer, he knew there was a great amount of photography from his National Park visits across the County and a chance to expand and include both unique views of these photos transitioned into posters and for original creations on canvas. Currently there are over 200 posters in his CAN collection. See more at: https://creativeaction.network/collections/bryan-bromstrup

Shows, Exhibitions and Accomplishments…

Starting in February 2019, Bryan's artwork is featured with other artists at the Crow Peak Brewing Company in Spearfish, South Dakota. Visit the Black Hills and stop by 125 W Highway 14 for a look and to try a Canyon Cream Ale! For the summer months of 2019, his work Rock N Riddles show at The Gallery @ Clabber Girl Museum ran the month of June to great success and he was featured in the 2019 Annual Midwest Photography Show in Paris, IL at Link Art Gallery. ArtsIlliana featured Bryan's work in 3 shows in 2019, 'The American Dream', 'Red' and 'Small Art'. In late 2019, Bryan's art is being represented on fellow Haute artist Tracy Richardson's  Superwoman Blues CD releasing in December and as the represented Indianapolis Colts NFL 100 T-Shirt Design Contest.

2018 brought three new art endeavors. Bryan designed three six-foot-tall coke bottles as part of a community-wide celebration marking Terre Haute as the birthplace of most recognizable product package on earth – the Coca-Cola bottle. Currently there are 30 sponsored bottles located throughout the city streets. For all of 2018 his See America and CAN art was featured on two floors of Olin Hall on the campus of Rose-Hulman. He also had a month long 26-piece exhibition at The Gallery @ Clabber Girl Museum in August and will be a featured artist for the month of June in 2019.

In May of 2017, Bryan’s original See America Poster Art for the Badlands National Park was used as artwork on a limited-edition Yankee Candle both in conjunction with the See America Project and the National Park Conservation Association. Another CAN poster collection called, What Makes America Great - a collection of designs celebrating the things that our artists believe make America truly great, ran 100 days long and Bryan was featured as artist number 31. His piece is titled, Bravery – Makes America Great and was archived in the Library of Congress’ Poster Collection in 2017!

For the 100^th running of the Indianapolis 500 in May of 2016, Bryan was lucky enough to have a signature piece recognized in one of a kind exhibit called Fast Forward, Look Back “Celebrating the Indianapolis 500 through Art” at the Stutz Art Gallery in Indianapolis, IN.

Bryan regularly is a part of the Rose-Hulman Official Literary and Arts Magazine called INK. Over the past few years he has submitted and has several selected works in the annual show and magazine, now in its 18^th year.

As part of the Terre Haute Community, Bryan’s artwork can be seen at shows and exhibitions at the Arts Illiana Gallery where he also sits on the Board of Directors. Since 2015, multiple works of art have been featured alongside talented artists in four exhibits shows each year. In December of 2017, Bryan was a featured artist in Terre Haute Living Magazine.