Brent Estabrook

INSTAGRAM: @brentestabrook

I have been WAITING to frame a piece like this!!! I have a great collector with great taste 😜😜😜 “gimme a hug” oil on canvas, 40”x30” All enquires please email ✉️ info@jameswrightgallery.com ✉️ www.brentestabrook.com | #brentestabrook #art #jameswrightgallery #oilpainting #stuffedanimals

🎨🐇🙃 “buttons and bows” oil and charcoal on panel, 20”x16” I can generally bring out the beauty in a piece given enough time However!... every now and then, you just hit it on the button... it just comes together so beautifully!!!😜😜😜 As most of you know, I have been challenging myself to paint more freely and subconsciously... this one just flowed so nicely... this one is, I believe, one of my best examples to date 😜😜😜 It was an Absolute joy to paint this little guy :) All enquires please email ✉️ info@jameswrightgallery.com ✉️ www.brentestabrook.com | #brentestabrook #art #jameswrightgallery #oilpainting #stuffedanimals #bunny #rabbit

😜🎨🐘 “Learning” oil and charcoal on panel, 30”x24”... I could probably name every piece I paint “learning”. As children we are so great and eager to learn... it is one of those naturally, beautiful things we do as humans. Personally, learning has continued to be one of my greatest joys in life... learning new skills, learning about history, learning useless fun facts, AND learning new ways of creating art!!! 🎨🎨🎨 Art has provided, and will continue to provide me with an eternity of learning potential AND THIS is one of the most important driving factors for me! Every piece I do will be/has been different simply because I ALWAYS have to learn something new in the process of creating a piece. I am so incredibly thankful I do something that has an absolutely infinite amount of discovery and learning AND... has no wrong answers 😜😜😜... that is pretty damn magical, don’t you think!? ;) All enquires please email ✉️ info@jameswrightgallery.com ✉️ www.brentestabrook.com | #brentestabrook #art #jameswrightgallery #oilpainting #stuffedanimals #elephant

Affectionately Known as, “weird blue guy” oil and charcoal on canvas, 72”x60” I did this piece some months ago however I have generally kept it to myself because it was created WAY out of my comfort zone!... about to go deep here so bare with with me 😜😜😜 I have personally reached a point in my art journey in which it is no longer about improving my artistic skill (however I will still always pursue this), but rather I am mostly focused on improving my mind. (What I am about to describe is just a personal belief and not a necessary journey for every artist). I truly believe that the greatest art comes from mastering the mind and allowing oneself to completely “let go” and allow the art to flow through them unhindered by the conscious mind. With that said, at any technical level an artist can pursue the mastery of the mind and, I believe, create some very compelling work HOWEVER... What happens when an artist spends the beginning of their career mastering the classical techniques so well that they become habit or part of the subconscious AND THEN, with all this knowledge deeply engrained into their minds, pursues the art of “letting go” !!!???... well if you ask me, that is where the greatest art comes from! Now I am making a few assumptions here however I believe this was/is the path and mindset of some of the masters of the art world: Picasso, Guston, Condo, and many many more... i.e these are all artists who are technically very VERY competent but are most famous for styles that are much more free from the technical “rules” of art. I hope this all makes sense 😜 All enquires please email ✉️ info@jameswrightgallery.com ✉️ www.brentestabrook.com | #brentestabrook #art #jameswrightgallery #oilpainting #stuffedanimals

🐇🐇🐇 “Harlowe James” oil on panel, 30”x24” A very special piece for very special friends and their new addition to their family... Harlowe James :) All enquires please email ✉️ info@jameswrightgallery.com ✉️ www.brentestabrook.com | #brentestabrook #art #jameswrightgallery #oilpainting #stuffedanimals #bunny

I have been secretly waiting for a collector to acquire this piece and recently it happened! 😜🎨🐅 This pieces was, personally, one of the most mentally avant-garde/revolutionary pieces I have ever created! To put it simply... this was WAY out of my comfort zone, however I believe that the greatest growth and innovation comes from stepping outside your boundaries. This piece was was physically painted in an evening however it took ~14 years of artistic practice and, more importantly, years of mental practice. This piece is one of, if not the most clear example of my subconscious taking full control of the paint brush... WAY easier said than done!!! As the great Philip Guston once said about the painting process and just allowing the art to flow through you unencumbered... “if you’re lucky, even you leave” 😜😜😜 “Super Flying Tiger” oil on canvas, 30”x40”, 2018 All enquires please email ✉️ info@jameswrightgallery.com ✉️ www.brentestabrook.com | #brentestabrook #art #jameswrightgallery #oilpainting #stuffedanimals

“Crazy Stuffed Animals”, “The Upside Downs”, “Rough Animals”, “F’d Up Stuffed Animals”, etc... I have called them many different things but to me the name has never really been important. What was important to me was the art of letting go... being ok with not being perfect, such as life is. I spent 14 years learning the “traditional rules” of painting, which I am forever grateful for, however these pieces were the first where I just said, “f*** it” and allowed my subconscious to paint ... with all its knowledge and beautiful imperfections. I have often said that I could probably teach anybody to paint “realistically” however to teach somebody to paint freely... well, that is something you must learn on your own 😏 Artist I encourage you to step outside of your comfort zone, be ok with imperfections and just allow your mind and body to paint... I assure you, given time, beauty will arise :) All enquires please email ✉️ info@jameswrightgallery.com ✉️ www.brentestabrook.com | #brentestabrook #art #jameswrightgallery #oilpainting #stuffedanimals

“Smiles” 4 1/2’x4 1/2’x4 1/2’ ~800lbs Bronze Sculpture. The Process from final sculpture to the very beginning 🐻🐻🐻 All enquires please email ✉️ info@jameswrightgallery.com ✉️ www.brentestabrook.com | #brentestabrook #art #jameswrightgallery #oilpainting #stuffedanimals #teddybear

ToyBox | May 2018 | New York

Art Fair | January 2018 | Los Angeles CA

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'the ANIMALS' | solo show November 2017 | Los Angeles CA

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Interview: What Inspires My Creativity | HubSpot's 'INBOUND STUDIOS'