Echoes of Grace Painting

Brett Cassort is an International Award winning and published landscape artist who has covered the U.S., growing up in the Northeast and now calling Southern California home for over a decade. Living in the southwest has given Brett access to the wealth of natural beauty that surrounds him. The beaches, mountains and desert can all be experienced within a couple hour drive and provide so much inspiration for his work. One of his favorite drives is through the desert. There’s a solitude about it which provides a natural meditative experience, but at the same time it’s bursting with life and color in not so obvious ways. It’s calming, peaceful, vibrant and dangerous all at the same time depending on the time of year. Cloud structures that form over distant mountains can catch sunrises and sunsets at different angles. Often times those angles change the narrative by the minute giving the eye little time to differentiate. It’s in those moments that new ideas are sparked, captured by a dash camera and conceptualized into a composition for new work.