This painting titled "Creation of Heaven and Earth" was one of Brad's first painting ever created on the subject that has intrigued this artist for so many years. Brad who as most artists do having worked a lifetime perfecting his gift found himself with "Painters Block" back in 1996. A place where an artist stands or sits in front of a canvas waiting for something to come to him or her. This is what had happened to Brad with this piece. He reached to his stereo and cranked it as high as he and the neighbors could tolerate it and started laying down paint and left his hand be guided by the music and his creator. Brad watched as the paint kept going on as to what he was seeing and then joined in. What began to appear was to Brad the beginning of everything. It was something that moved him and for a moment made his life worth something. After he felt it was done he put it away as the emptiness he was experiencing just prior to painting this piece was still lingering. It was until a year later that he pulled the painting out from his drying racks that he saw this piece differently as he was mentally in a better place than when he originally painted it and found beauty in it for the very first time.  Brad decided to enter this painting in an international competition and the piece was chosen as one of the top paintings in the world.

Painted: 1996

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Image Size: 30"h x 40"w

Framed Size: 38"h x 48"w x 2"d