jim brightwell

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  • story/ recent purchases
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  • recent works 2021/ 2022
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jim brightwell

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  • story/ recent purchases
  • featured works / news
  • recent works 2021/ 2022
  • works
  • northrock studios
  • history / contacts

     In 2011, at the age of 54, I built Northrock Studios at my home in Caddo Mills Texas and began to make art.  At that time, I was working full time in the construction business and I made art as time allowed. In 2020 I left the construction business and  devoted myself fulltime to art. Having spent the previous forty years in construction, it felt natural to adapt its materials and techniques into my art. I am not a formally trained or educated artist. While I have spent fifty years looking at and thinking about art, my abilities and skills in creating my pieces are firmly grounded in the utilitarian occupation of construction.

    The subject of my art are the materials themselves. The materials (concrete, steel, glass, wood, fiber, adobe, salvaged vines, etc.) I choose and how I combine and transform them to create a visual narrative, are the content of my art.  The complex web of symbolic and spiritual meaning inherent to each piece is determined in the material world of the artist. 

      I'm an artist because its the best use of the time I have left on the planet.  If I can create art that satisfies my desire to recast the material world in ways that reveal new and interesting results and at the same time enhances the vision of someone viewing my art, then it is all time well spent. I am grateful for every day that I can keep on doing this. .

     All the artwork on this site is for sale unless noted otherwise. To view additional works please contact me directly. We can forward images or arrange a studio visit. I don't make art to sell it. But when it's finished, it needs to leave the studio. 

Jim Brightwell
Texas artist
Texas art
Northrock Studios
Caddo Mills Texas
contemporary art
sculpture

Northrock Studios / Caddo Mills Texas

recent purchases

two sisters/ collection of Tom Maxwell

    RECENT PURCHASES AT MAIN STREET FORT WORTH

    small pour #28 / collection of Cadence Turner

      contemporary sculpture by jim brightwell/coaxis #3/ collection of robert weiss

      coaxis #3 / poured concrete/ 9" x 9" x 3"

        coaxis #1 / collection of Sherry Owens

        coaxis #1 / poured concrete/ 9x9x3

          coaxis #2 and #4 / collection of Lorna Riojas

          coaxis #4 / poured concrete/ 9x9x3

            LOAM #1 / COLLECTION OF AMANDA BELLER

            loam #1 / hybrid adobe / 9x9x2

              OXO #1 / COLLECTION OF KRISTA SCHNIPPERT

              OXO #1 / cast concrete / 10" diam

                SMALL POURS #34/#36/#37/ COLLECTION OF GERRY clark

                small pour #34/ cast concrete/ 6x6x2

                  COAXIS #5 / COLLECTION OF ALEX MACIAS

                  coaxis #5 / cast concrete/ 9x9x3

                    TRUTHBRIDE #16 / COLLECTION OF KEVIN PARMA

                    truthbride #16 / cast concrete/ 12x12x3

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