The Studio of Widman
Writings
"It has occurred to me that when I paint , I think about writing and when I write I think about painting. Everything I write and paint, I live every day. They are my entire being they are my all. They compel me to be who I am and strive for the sacred, embracing the creative – reaping the sustenance. I produce my paintings in a state of monastic mindfulness they are seeds reminiscent of our divine nature."
Bradley Widman is not only a prolific artist, but he is also a prolific writer. His musings on life, the spirit and nature around us add an extra element to his visual art. Combined, the two serve to create a surreal environment. Below is information regarding his first two published works, The Solitary Seed and The Monastic Overture. Both combine prose and artwork to create a stunning experience through the lens of the artist himself. His third publication, Peter's Dream, is currently in pre-production status. We will keep you posted as details become available!
The Solitary Seed is an example of meditative literature, designed to enhance the artist’s role inside his spiritual realm of creativity. Written by full-time painter Bradley Widman, this book delivers us into a different form of consciousness as we commune with the eternal aesthetic self. It brings us into the light of the artist's existence; and at the same time, experiencing Widman’s highly allegorical overtures of aesthetic theory; paintings and poetry. The Solitary Seed is a poetic analysis of art that brings each of us into the fullness of our own creative and unique natures. It is an experience in the exploration of the allegorical. Widman infuses spirituality and art in his unique way, by which he communicates to young aspiring artists, revealing to them their own nobility through the planting of aphoristic seeds of wisdom. The result is an artist enlightened.
The Monastic Overture, the autobiography of painter-author Bradley Widman, explains in an allegorical format his necessity to parallel and elaborate on God’s creative intelligence through painting and writing and the process of how his works are manifested. Widman reveals his most intimate sentiments about self and his disciplined stance in life. Generating a lightness and poetic understanding of his unique nature, observing the fragility and complexities of an artistic mind, inducing great creativity, and opening the door to self-understanding and acceptance of the precise movement of the aesthetic spirit in a self-imposed cloistered universe.