Brian Bateman
A Journey Through History
An artist’s passion…
I am an historical artist. Keeping our past in the present is how I like to think about what I do, ensuring that not only past generations remember historical figures and events, but also the upcoming generations that should know where we came from and where we may go based on this past. I did not call on the genre, it called on me – a calling that resides within me to this day, whatever historical subject that I chose to depict.
It has been this way since I was a child growing up in Dayton, Ohio in the early 1960s. My particular love of historical events from our past motivates my desire to keep alive the events within our nation’s history as well as world history.
Native Americans and their way of life and struggles over the centuries have always intrigued me – and so I find myself creating art that hopefully strikes a nerve or touches the viewer in a way that was intended, a homage to these brave yet gentle spirited people who were forced to integrate into a world that they were outcast from the beginning. Their ways and beliefs are something that we all can still learn from, and so with this passion I feel that I might in some small way keep this way of life in the forefront – no other country has the ability to have created such a diverse history of the west in world history.
Various national western art shows that I have had the privilege to have been invited include: Settlers West Gallery, The Bosque Art Classic in TX, The Mountain Oyster Club Western Art Show and Sale in Tucson AZ, Cheyenne Art Show in WY, Montana Miniatures Art Show, March in Montana Art Auction and The Out West Show in MT, and various others.