Brian Jerome Paintings

Contemporary life is so packed with more complex chaos on top of a personal existence. its ever increasing seems to make it harder to sit down and remember what has happened and what...

So it started here, and then we met so and so, we got to there, and then this happened, so we backtracked to where we left off and now it is kind of right here in this mess.

Sometimes when life changes over the years, one can try to adjust. Sometimes this becomes suppressing the authentic self. This is a mistake.

the past looks like a tunnel when you turn around, but its important to find comfort and understanding in it to sleepthe past looks like a tunnel when you turn around, but its import...

After a treacherous year of change and the emotional brutality and transition of life, I engaged on a physical and, non-intended, journey through mental revival. To leave old rumina...

Trying to come to terms with consciousness and time. how we change and try to remember all the memories now not as trusted as once was.

In the last 16 years I have moved 9 times. 3 of which were houses i purchased with the intent to never move again and to finally have some where to call home. In all those apartmen...

Some sunny days I feel relaxed; I feel like everything will be okay. But then it is disrupted with the news and hardships of reality and the anxiety it causes

2023 was a terrible year, personally for me. A lot of loss, restructure, defeat, and recognition that life inevitably moves on and gets worse. Here is to not giving up, and 2024.

Sometimes life and existence can feel like a prison. you dont know when it started and where it came from. hopeless can feel real. but there is still always what you were wondering t...

My wife and I visited Edinburgh, Scotland for Thanksgiving. It was an incredibly nostalgic trip for one we had never been on. We held hands and walked the streets by the ferris whe...

The drive from Philadelphia to my hometown, York, used to seem like an eternity 16 years ago. As time has flown by, so has the drive. What once seemed like most a day, is a blip of...

Life is a bunch of experiences of grasping and hoping for what you want but cannot control.

I contracted Covid-19 after the pandemic started. Even after my recovery, I became more and more reobsessed with finite conclusion. I have to die someday...

My Nana and Grandpa had a watercolor painting of a barn growing up. I loved it growing up even though it took me until i was 16 to see a barn. Thought it. was abstract but i was over...

Trying to look ahead to the future. It keeps getting grayer and murkier. Looking for the headlights.

Three years. Inundated Pestilence. Three years. Inundated Pestilence. Three years. Inundated Pestilence. Three years. Inundated Pestilence. Three years. Inundated Pestilence.

Had a mental breakdown. Life seemed to fall apart. The weather was beautiful for November.

Life creates it self. We make choices. My promise of always is to the one that means everything to me. The hope of happiness and utopia forever through struggle and learning to under...

A smaller work that was both working through different landscape orientation as well as leading up to the 2018 election in the US. This work to me, reflects figures turning there bac...

A friend from grad school gave me a painting he did not think was successful. I have worked over the canvas since 2017. It is now 2023 and I finally feel like it is done.

The title comes from a reflection of my life living in North Philadelphia 2008-2014. I was pretty broke all the time, so getting actual liquor to drink was an occasional luxury. I li...

I grew up next to a farm, next to woods. I moved to North Philly. My parents sold the house I grew up in when I left and moved to 2000s suburbia housing. I moved to Kensington. My f...

Sometimes we can stare out, space out and be content losing track of time.

I spent almost a decade after kitchen shifts at Old Philadelphia Bar in Kensington.

After school in high school, I would drive around the cornfields and neighborhoods with friends listening to music and smoking until it was time to ...

The 4th installment of my pieces set to waltz music.

Scotland is a great place to visit. World War 1 was a hundred years ago. We are repeating.

My girlfriend (now my wife) had trouble falling asleep one night. While i slept she went into my studio and made a drawing with pastel on one of my business cards and left it for me ...

Always comes form my wife's favorite story but always is what always was and will be. forever is a constant to the universe but not to us.

Looking outside while the outside does not look inside all while the view has always been skewed

What else can be said about 2020? About life? It keeps going on in a chaotic manner. I was raised to believe in a creator and an orchestration. I am reminded every second that was fa...

This was one of the first paintings of 2020. I had sold my first house and moved in with my fiance. I recently learned my studio lease would not be renewed. The angst of starting ane...

Hunters herded the bison and drove them over the cliff, breaking their legs and rendering them immobile. Tribe members waiting below closed in with spears and bows to finish the kills.

I deal with a lot of anxiety and fear of time coming and going too fast. I remember being 18 and moving to Philadelphia for college like it was yesterday. 10 years have gone by and I...

I met my best friend during my freshman year at Tyler School of Art in 2008. We bonded over The Boondocks, the band Rancid, and comic books. We both wanted to be illustrators. For th...

The song is written. its good. play it your own way and dont get yourself down.

We can all ignore seeing our own traumatic experiences in others as the brain tries to protect our emotions. Inevitably you will have to face it to be there for others and simultaneo...

Entering in mid adulthood, actions are made. whether a career commitment, parenting, partnership, etc. it can be reactionary. but it is without repercussion and impossible to "redo" ...

Even though it easy to get stuck and ruminate on the past, life does not wait and continues in a forward trajectory.

every year goes on. being and caring and listening to others, whoever and how close you are and care and empathize and sympathize and take in, and as the world does and society does,...

The world was once and still seen as the wild and the civilized. colonialization and the development of the world post argues that they will bring peace to the places that were once ...

It is so easy, within our nature and defense mechanisms to get so heated, riled up, loud and confrontational, that we can forget what we are trying to stand up for, argue for, and th...

After a distress of traumatic event, reflection, acceptance, and continuance, one can revisit the world in a less stark and depressing manner.

To find myself and return to what makes me, myself, i traveled to new towns and cities through airplanes, trains and cars. It made me healthier.

Listings with rich descriptions are 40% more likely to sell and this was made when I filed for divorce.

Listings with rich descriptions are 40% more likely to sell and this was made 3 months leading up to my divorce.

We tend to think of plans as aspects of progress. Sometimes in life you do not realize that you may have actually created a plan to implode or have dire consequences.

We go after what we do not have. We want what we have not. It might be foolish, but in order to to be happy, one must try.

A possible metaphysical map to the answer that does or does not exist or that we may benefit from.

What was going on in the background Edvard Munch's "The Scream". What did the onlookers think?

Materials used to show the vadalism, cover up, and decay of Philadelphia that mimics all of us.

Those times when the world, no matter how awful, blissful, woeful or joyful freezes and it is simply appreciated.

We self-correct stories about ourselves. We retell stories the way we remember and how we want to remember. Political narratives change. People remember stories in relationships diff...

I have trouble sleeping. Trouble falling asleep. Trouble staying asleep. Trouble sometimes telling dreams from waking life. I have used multiple medications and substances over the y...

I like that the universe is indifferent to us and that the plants and water will live without our concern of self and worry

There is a monster inside. There is a journey to discover. Life sucks. Life is beautiful.

Primary Colors. World War 3. Covid. My wife created the best absurd title. Make your own meaning.

I wish I could do commissions. But I cannot. I heart is the bitter buffalo.

I lived in North Philadelphia and Kensington for over a decade. My first studio after grad school was in the Badlands. I had a rickety balcony that had a great view of the neighborh...