Artist Statement

I make one-of-one oil paintings concerned with dignity, privacy, and steadiness. The work focuses on interior spaces, thresholds, time-bearing objects, quiet acts of repair, and light treated as a physical presence rather than a symbol.

I am not interested in narrative or confession. The paintings are meant to hold space rather than explain it. Meaning is allowed to arrive gradually, without instruction, and emotion is permitted to move without being named or resolved.

The work is shaped by Gulf South light and everyday interiors. Restraint, care, and deliberateness guide both subject matter and process. Objects and spaces are rendered for what they are, carrying use and attention, rather than standing in for something else. Memory, grief, and care are present, but they are not staged or performed.

Oil is used for its ability to carry time and surface. Each painting is made slowly and exists as a single finished work. No prints or reproductions are produced. Every piece is accompanied by full provenance documentation.

I assume the viewer brings their own experience to the work. The paintings do not instruct or persuade. They offer a quiet place to stand, intact and unobserved, where attention can settle and meaning can unfold at its own pace.

— Brandon Wallis