Brian Sullan

I'm an artist who finds as much joy roaming through a junk car lot as I do a picturesque landscape.

Digital Art

Mashups are digital artworks that combine multiple images together using layer blending features in photo editing software. Stylistically, they're about exploring boundaries between painting and photography, realism and abstraction, and finding beauty in decay.

From the series Driven. See more in the Mashup galleries.

Painting

My roots are in "analog" art, and there is still nothing quite like working with real paint and brushes. Current abstract works on paper have a strong overlap with my mashups in terms of aesthetics, but lacking a realistic content hook, success lies more directly in the expressiveness of colors, shapes, and textural effects.

Stax 2, acrylic on paper, 14" x 17", 2024-25. See more in the Paintings galleries.

Photography

Interest in single-image photography dates back to my college years, manually developing film in a physical darkroom. With modern tools, I now look forward to post-processing images in a digital darkroom. In addition to taking photos of source imagery to use in my mashups, I also enjoy connecting with nature across ever-changing lighting and weather conditions.