Artist Statement:

As an artist, I’ve always suffered from a bit of a split personality.  A struggle between the photorealist and the cartoonist.  Will it be dramatic, serious subject matter touching on the fears and angst of modern society, or puns and humorous manifestations of my inner child’s delight?  Fine arts or commercial?  Enlightenment or entertainment?

I guess my journey as an artist has been the effort to resolve this dicotomy and find a single voice (or paintstroke) to marry the sundered halves of my muse.  Or maybe I just want to be rich and famous.  Well…rich, anyway.

I don’t know that I feel compelled to create art in order to express myself or tell a specific tale.  Mostly I do it because it’s a major part of who and what I am.  I am an artist.  I am a cartoonist.  I am a maker of images and objects.  If you scratch the surface any deeper than that, you will probably find the same passions, needs, hopes and desperations that drive anyone else.  Mine just drive me to sit at a slanted table and doodle on paper.  Go figure.

And so, I have been a working, professional illustrator, artist and cartoonist for over half my life.  I will never retire so much as I will (hopefully) just do more personal projects until I drop.

The universe is unimaginably vast and varied and just a little bit ridiculous. It’s a cosmic Mulligan’s Stew. All the ingredients are tossed together (by forces, not by chefs) and it brews and steeps and whatever happens, happens.

We happened.  I wish everyone would quit squabbling over WHY we happened and just get on with living good lives.  ^0^

http://markbrill.com/

As an artist, I've always suffered from a bit of a split personality.  A struggle
between the photorealist and the cartoonist.  Will it be dramatic, serious subject
matter touching on the fears and angst of modern society, or puns and humorous
manifestations of my inner child's delight?  Fine arts or commercial?
Enlightenment or entertainment?

I guess my journey as an artist has been the effort to resolve this dicotomy and
find a single voice (or paintstroke) to marry the sundered halves of my muse.  Or
maybe I just want to be rich and famous.  Well...rich, anyway.

I don't know that I feel compelled to create art in order to express myself or tell
a specific tale.  Mostly I do it because it's a major part of who and what I am.  I
am an artist.  I am a cartoonist.  I am a maker of images and objects.  If you
scratch the surface any deeper than that, you will probably find the same passions,
needs, hopes and desperations that drive anyone else.  Mine just drive me to sit
at a slanted table and doodle on paper.  Go figure.

And so, I have been a working, professional illustrator, artist and cartoonist for
over half my life.  I will never retire so much as I will (hopefully) just do more
personal projects until I drop.

The universe is unimaginably vast and varied and just a little bit ridiculous.
It's a cosmic Mulligan's Stew. All the ingredients are tossed together (by forces,
not by chefs) and it brews and steeps and whatever happens, happens.  

We happened.  I wish everyone would quit squabbling over WHY we happened and just
get on with living good lives.  ^0^