Clouds and Bluff

Brad Teare has been carving woodcuts for over twenty years, a discipline that deeply shaped his sense of rhythm, contrast, and structure. In 2004, he began painting en plein air, fusing his printmaking background with a growing passion for landscape. During the 1990s, Teare illustrated for major publishers including The New York Times and Random House, creating book covers for literary giants such as James Michener, Anne Tyler, and Alice Walker. He grew up in Kansas, inspired by the bold narrative imagery of Rockwell Kent and Lynd Ward, and spent summers working in a small letterpress shop—an experience that sparked his lifelong love of texture and design.

At eighteen, Teare traveled to Northern Idaho, where he built a log cabin at the foot of Moscow Mountain and spent a year painting watercolors by kerosene lamp through the long winters. That summer, while working on trail crews in the Cascade Mountains, he was deeply moved by the Alpine Lakes Wilderness. Surrounded by wild beauty and vast silence, he knew he would one day devote himself fully to landscape painting. Today, Teare lives in Providence, Utah, painting bold, textured vistas with a palette knife—honoring both the structure of printmaking and the wildness of the American West.