BRIAN R
@brianriley1art.bsky.social
I am a painter living and working in New Jersey. I have had a solid studio practice for over 30 years. I rarely ever show my work outside a few friends. WHAT DO YOU SEE? BRLMT.com
4ft x 4ft acrylic on canvas
August 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
4ft x 4ft acrylic on canvas
This little gem is for zooming in on. It’s from my NEVERLAND series 2023 2022 #art#abstractart#painting
July 15, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This little gem is for zooming in on. It’s from my NEVERLAND series 2023 2022 #art#abstractart#painting
Two of the beautiful works I have currently hanging in my art studio. The drawing the larger one is from 2024. The painting is from maybe 2015 Ish I always just let what is going to come to the surface come and then I hang out on the wall.#Art #Painting #Drawing #Art #Artist #ArtStudio.
July 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Two of the beautiful works I have currently hanging in my art studio. The drawing the larger one is from 2024. The painting is from maybe 2015 Ish I always just let what is going to come to the surface come and then I hang out on the wall.#Art #Painting #Drawing #Art #Artist #ArtStudio.
This one always makes me smile. I had this hanging in my office for a long time. Small acrylic on board. Layers and layers, time passes by. #abstract #Art #Painter #AcrylicPainting #FineArt #Studio #ArtStudio #Artist
July 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This one always makes me smile. I had this hanging in my office for a long time. Small acrylic on board. Layers and layers, time passes by. #abstract #Art #Painter #AcrylicPainting #FineArt #Studio #ArtStudio #Artist
This 36” x 40” acrylic is a fun one. I go back to this work a lot, I had it hanging in my healing space (I do massage) for a while. I love looking at it. What is it that you see? #art #acrylicpainting #abstract art #Painting #ShowMyPainting #Artist
July 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This 36” x 40” acrylic is a fun one. I go back to this work a lot, I had it hanging in my healing space (I do massage) for a while. I love looking at it. What is it that you see? #art #acrylicpainting #abstract art #Painting #ShowMyPainting #Artist
On a more somber note this large work 5ft x 5ft was painfully painted on the day the U.S. voted to kill itself, its dreams, and its future. I’m still sad and seeking a way through this daily! #art #artwithmeaning #acrylicpainting #artist
July 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
On a more somber note this large work 5ft x 5ft was painfully painted on the day the U.S. voted to kill itself, its dreams, and its future. I’m still sad and seeking a way through this daily! #art #artwithmeaning #acrylicpainting #artist
This is a big fun painting from around 2021. The woods, isolation, order and disorder. Trying to find a foothold. Acrylic on play wood 4ft x 4ft #art #abstracpainting #artist #acrylicpainting #fineart #painter
July 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
This is a big fun painting from around 2021. The woods, isolation, order and disorder. Trying to find a foothold. Acrylic on play wood 4ft x 4ft #art #abstracpainting #artist #acrylicpainting #fineart #painter
There was a freedom in this work I had gotten to a point where I could really shut off that questioning is this OK part of my brain and I dove deeply into painting sometimes you’re in it sometimes you’re not 18 x 24 acrylic on canvas #art #AbstractArt #AbstractPainter #AbstractPainting #Artist
July 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
There was a freedom in this work I had gotten to a point where I could really shut off that questioning is this OK part of my brain and I dove deeply into painting sometimes you’re in it sometimes you’re not 18 x 24 acrylic on canvas #art #AbstractArt #AbstractPainter #AbstractPainting #Artist
I really love this painting, even though it’s a subject matter was a bit difficult when I made it. It was about those times when one feels a darkness floating in. It’s interesting to look at it now and think back on it. 18”\24” acrylic on canvas #art #abstract art #AbstractPainter #AbstractPainting
July 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I really love this painting, even though it’s a subject matter was a bit difficult when I made it. It was about those times when one feels a darkness floating in. It’s interesting to look at it now and think back on it. 18”\24” acrylic on canvas #art #abstract art #AbstractPainter #AbstractPainting
This one is so cool. It has so many layers to dive into. When I paint I try to shut down the why part of my brian, I never set out with an idea to paint, instead I rely on manifesting what wishes to arrive. #painting #art #abstractart #abstractpainting#artist
July 12, 2025 at 10:28 AM
This one is so cool. It has so many layers to dive into. When I paint I try to shut down the why part of my brian, I never set out with an idea to paint, instead I rely on manifesting what wishes to arrive. #painting #art #abstractart #abstractpainting#artist
I’m gonna take any of them further leap back today into some work. I was doing back in 2020 2021 acrylic on paper 18 x 24. This work was about the radical beauty of nature. Chaos attempting to organize #Art #AcrylicPainting #Painting #FineArt #Artist #FloralPainting.
July 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I’m gonna take any of them further leap back today into some work. I was doing back in 2020 2021 acrylic on paper 18 x 24. This work was about the radical beauty of nature. Chaos attempting to organize #Art #AcrylicPainting #Painting #FineArt #Artist #FloralPainting.
When I get an idea my head I tend to work in a series. Some series will go on for a month a week others can go on for years. These are four from my Neverland series done in 2023 acrylic 18 x 24 #Art #AbstractPainting #AbstractArt#Painting #Neverland #Artist.
July 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
When I get an idea my head I tend to work in a series. Some series will go on for a month a week others can go on for years. These are four from my Neverland series done in 2023 acrylic 18 x 24 #Art #AbstractPainting #AbstractArt#Painting #Neverland #Artist.
I really feel like this one today it’s hot It’s summer.
The humidity reminds me of the sound of New Orleans jazz music. This work is 12” x 16” acrylic on board #Art #AcrylicPainting #AbstractArt #Jazz #NewOrleans #Painter #Painting #Artist.
The humidity reminds me of the sound of New Orleans jazz music. This work is 12” x 16” acrylic on board #Art #AcrylicPainting #AbstractArt #Jazz #NewOrleans #Painter #Painting #Artist.
July 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I really feel like this one today it’s hot It’s summer.
The humidity reminds me of the sound of New Orleans jazz music. This work is 12” x 16” acrylic on board #Art #AcrylicPainting #AbstractArt #Jazz #NewOrleans #Painter #Painting #Artist.
The humidity reminds me of the sound of New Orleans jazz music. This work is 12” x 16” acrylic on board #Art #AcrylicPainting #AbstractArt #Jazz #NewOrleans #Painter #Painting #Artist.
This is a cool drawing done early last summer. I am a massage therapist as well as an artist so energy and shifting patterns are all over my life. Charcoal and pastel on paper. #art #drawing #abstractart #artist #artstudio
July 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
This is a cool drawing done early last summer. I am a massage therapist as well as an artist so energy and shifting patterns are all over my life. Charcoal and pastel on paper. #art #drawing #abstractart #artist #artstudio
Another good one from the vampire series I love the perspective in these each one is a 11 x 14 acrylic on wooden panel 2023 possibly I’d have to look #Art #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Painting #Artist #ArtistStudio #Paint
July 10, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Another good one from the vampire series I love the perspective in these each one is a 11 x 14 acrylic on wooden panel 2023 possibly I’d have to look #Art #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Painting #Artist #ArtistStudio #Paint
This work from my series entitled Neverland in these works. I was fascinated by the layering of nature, but these were being painted. I would walk in the woods in the morning and try to see what it changed. subtle and huge at the same time. 18 x 24 acrylic painting on board #Art #AbstractArt
July 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This work from my series entitled Neverland in these works. I was fascinated by the layering of nature, but these were being painted. I would walk in the woods in the morning and try to see what it changed. subtle and huge at the same time. 18 x 24 acrylic painting on board #Art #AbstractArt
This beautiful little work what’s from a series I did while listening to Memnoch the devil by #AnneRice I did a whole series of paintings about it 11 x 14 acrylic on wooden panels #Art #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Painting #Artist
July 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This beautiful little work what’s from a series I did while listening to Memnoch the devil by #AnneRice I did a whole series of paintings about it 11 x 14 acrylic on wooden panels #Art #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Painting #Artist
I tend to drift between curved edges and straight edges mostly dictated by my mood or whatever it is that I am trying to capture in my work whether it be Music dreams politics ideas patterns. These two paintings are about two years apart. What do you see? #Art #AbstractArt#AbstractPainting #Artist
July 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I tend to drift between curved edges and straight edges mostly dictated by my mood or whatever it is that I am trying to capture in my work whether it be Music dreams politics ideas patterns. These two paintings are about two years apart. What do you see? #Art #AbstractArt#AbstractPainting #Artist
This is a cool one. I sold last year to a friend. It was based on walks around the city of New Orleans with a poet friend of mine. What do you see 12 x 16 acrylic on paper #Art #AcrylicPainting #AbstractArt #ShareMyArt #Painting#NewOrleans
July 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
This is a cool one. I sold last year to a friend. It was based on walks around the city of New Orleans with a poet friend of mine. What do you see 12 x 16 acrylic on paper #Art #AcrylicPainting #AbstractArt #ShareMyArt #Painting#NewOrleans
Seems like people really like pictures of the inside of the studio it’s always changing as my 30+ years of work keeps piling up and up and up #Art #Painting #AbstractArt #ShareMyArt #Artist #ArtistStudio
July 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Seems like people really like pictures of the inside of the studio it’s always changing as my 30+ years of work keeps piling up and up and up #Art #Painting #AbstractArt #ShareMyArt #Artist #ArtistStudio
How about some drawings as well often times when a new idea is formulating I go through a period of not making anything and then I start to draw something emerges and a new series is born. #Art #ArtShare #Drawing #AbstractDrawing
July 10, 2025 at 10:57 AM
How about some drawings as well often times when a new idea is formulating I go through a period of not making anything and then I start to draw something emerges and a new series is born. #Art #ArtShare #Drawing #AbstractDrawing
The studio often looks so different from the final piece I think of behind the scenes look is always good. I spent so much time alone in my studio being an artist is not always exciting. I find it very lonely sometimes. #Art #Painting #AbstractArt #ArtStudio.
July 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
The studio often looks so different from the final piece I think of behind the scenes look is always good. I spent so much time alone in my studio being an artist is not always exciting. I find it very lonely sometimes. #Art #Painting #AbstractArt #ArtStudio.