Brian Schreiner was born at Sculthorpe Air Force Base, Norfolk, England, U.K. on September 11, 1955. He lived in South Creek near the coast and in Stow-on-the-Wold, a hilltop town in the Cottswolds which was started by the Romans with its two thousand year old buildings and cobblestone streets. In 1965 he moved to Mountain Home, Idaho and grew up in the west with the outdoors and wide-open spaces. Art has appealed to Brian from the earliest times of drawing and painting in school or at home. The desire to work as a professional artist prompted him to work towards a Bachelor of Fine arts and Education degrees along with some architectural design.
Schreiner spent the following ten years in Los Angeles, California pursuing creative endeavors. He gained experience in commercial art, toy design, interior design and mural projects and has designed restaurants and painted murals for many interesting clients. Projects include “Executive Decision Maker” coffee cup mug, Rosie’s BBQ Grillery Restaurants, a mural around a fish tank in a hospital, working on a motion picture crew “Private School,” Lancaster California Museum of Fine Art watercolor show, painting an angel picture onstage for a Life Flight Festival of Trees Auction, and painting a garden hummingbird mural with a picket fence for his wife, Cindy.
Brian began exhibiting formally in 1979, and since has had many shows in the western United States and is represented in many private collections. Schreiner began printmaking in 1988. He also enjoys teaching outdoor painting workshops. He thinks that creating art is like attempting alchemy: (a process of transforming various elements into gold). It is possible to make art by combining thoughts, living experiences and art materials in attempting to make good art? Some paintings are created with definite goals and research to tell a story, some are created to cause a discussion about a given topic, and others are painted simply to capture a scene or design in which the viewer might find their own varied meanings. Schreiner’s working process is improving as he works to become a better artist.
Poetic and whimsical in nature, Brian’s paintings are often symbols and images of the West representing intriguing landscapes and modern Western Americana Art. Bringing back memories of your tricycle you peddled and dreamed on as a kid, now rusted in the blue sagebrush.
Brian Schreiner lives in Boise, Idaho.
