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October 26-November 27, 2012

Brian Sweetland lives and works in Pawlet, Vermont. He travels the state
painting outdoors year round in the company of his beloved dogs. “Brian
Sweetland’s oil paintings of rural Vermont…have the immediacy of the
Impressionist tradition, and there’s an underlying compositional
architecture that is careful and deliberate and enduring. His subjects are
the threatened landscape, that which is bound to disappear, and he is
adept at capturing both its substance and its essence. Pastoral Vermont is
depicted lovingly, but not sentimentally…”.
Brian Sweetland was born in Wheaton, Minnesota in 1952 and was raised in
Montana, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Ohio. In 1977, his sketches caught the
attention of Dean Fausett, a prominent portrait, landscape and mural
painter, and Sweetland was invited to Vermont to continue his studies. A
grant from the Society for the Preservation of Traditional Values in the
Fine Arts helped Sweetland begin his apprenticeship. His first major
exhibit was held in 1980 in Middleburg, VA, and since then he has shown at
many galleries in Vermont, New York, Alabama, and Massachusetts, where he
has exhibited at the Copley Society and, in 1988, at the St. Botolph Club.
His work is found in the permanent collection of the Southern Vermont Art
Center and in many private collections around the world.

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