Today we’d like to introduce you to Brady Haston.
Hi Brady, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
I am from Spencer, Tennessee and through many turns and twists have ended up calling Nashville my home for 19 years now.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
A painter always takes the road less travelled and that road is typically a bumpy and unpaved place. My practice has helped me focus on creating work and not focus on the final destination.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
The narratives held within Tennessee’s history are richly layered. Chock-full of depth and emotion, they remain embedded across the state’s landscape. From the rural communities that once measured life by the seasons to metropolitan areas continually remaking themselves, each locale in the Volunteer State behaves much like a living character acting out a much larger drama.
Nashville visual artist Brady Haston has spent much of his career exploring that drama. Moving freely through the annals of Tennessee, Brady works to capture the memory of a landscape. This might involve studying the details of nineteenth-century imagery one moment and comparing them with the appearance of a modern-day downtown street the next.
“When people see my work, they can find that there’s a local narrative going on,” Brady says. “I feel really comfortable jumping in and out of time. It all comes from this idea of relating to the area you’re in at the time you’re in.”
Pivoting between chronologies in his paintings and drawings, Brady’s art has grown more representational in recent years. But this kind of representation is more focused on the spirit of the thing than its literal depiction. “It’s the idea of a landscape more than the actual look of a landscape.”
The approach reflects an artist interested not just in what Tennessee looks like, but in how a place accumulates its stories.
Can you talk to us a bit about the role of luck?
I feel very lucky to have found my community of like minded creative folks here in Nashville. I always tell young artist to focus on becoming part of a community as a key to any future success.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.bradyhaston.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bradyhaston/
