Featured image: Road of Endless Echoes, Brent Hollingsead, 2024, mixed media, 36 x 70 in. / 91.44 x 177.8 cm.
Brent Hollingsead transforms land, sky, and path into visual symphonies.
Brent Hollingsead paints radiant, textural landscapes infused with motion, light, and spiritual energy, merging realism with ecstatic abstraction.
Through radiant color, rhythmic brushwork, and luminous atmospheres, his paintings capture not just a place, but the spiritual pulse beneath it. Using a blend of acrylic and oil, Hollingsead renders expansive terrains as ecstatic fields of energy, where perspective lines meet sunbursts and the horizon becomes a portal. In Desert Sun, Fire Path, and Illumination Road, he invites viewers on a kinetic journey through nature’s most vivid thresholds.
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Desert Sun, Brent Hollingsead, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 in. / 76.2 x 101.6 cm.
In Desert Sun, Hollingsead evokes the arid vastness of the American Southwest, but reimagines it through a kaleidoscope of violet, peach, and cobalt. The landscape undulates in radiant texture, each stroke vibrating with heat and spiritual energy. A glowing sun looms in the sky like an energetic vortex, its rays spiraling outward in controlled chaos. Monumental cliffs and distant mesas ground the scene, yet nothing feels still. Instead, light dances across the canyon, turning rock into rhythm and desert into dream.
Fire Path, Brent Hollingsead, 2023, oil and acrylic on canvas, 36 x 60 in. / 91.44 x 152.4 cm.
Fire Path leads the viewer down an infinite forest corridor where trees form mirrored walls and leaves swirl like fire sparks. The pathway, rendered in glowing pinks and purples, guides the eye toward a blinding vanishing point where light seems to consume form. The symmetrical composition amplifies a sense of sacred geometry, as if this wooded tunnel were a portal to some higher realm. Trees, once static, become columns of pulsing light. This is not just a path, it’s a passage through transformation, burning away illusion in favor of inner truth.
Illumination Road, Brent Hollingsead, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 in. / 76.2 x 101.6 cm.
In Illumination Road, the flatness of an endless prairie is contrasted with a cosmic sky exploding in layered blues, lavenders, and golden light. A narrow road slices through the land, drawing the viewer straight toward a divine horizon. The sky dominates the canvas with spinning cloud formations that recall Van Gogh’s expressive turbulence, yet here, the energy feels ascendant, hopeful. Hollingsead captures not only a stormy atmosphere, but the metaphysical weight of light pushing through the veil.
Across these three works, Brent Hollingsead reveals the world as a vibrating field of energy and possibility. He paints landscapes not as fixed places, but as emotional and spiritual experiences, infused with light, movement, and mystery. Whether in desert silence, forest flame, or prairie breath, Hollingsead’s art reminds us that all ground is sacred when seen through the lens of illumination.
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Autumn Canopy, Brent Hollingsead, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 24 in. / 91.44 x 60.96 cm.
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