Born in Los Angeles, California in 1963. Brian grew up in a time when pop art was at it’s height, and a great majority of the Art of the time was heavily influenced by that and the modernist and abstract expressionist work from decade before, an era which greatly changed the art world with the insurgence of mid-century modern design.

Modern architecture, home furnishings, ground breaking clothing design, and crafts, especially by the California ceramic studio artists of the time.

He began drawing and painting modernist abstract works at a very early age, mostly small works in oil, or acrylic on canvas, or on board. His first introduction to clay was while he was attending grade school in 1972. That first experience with clay changed his life and the medium in which he worked.

Brian continued to study through his high school years and beyond, mainly art based courses, such as Painting, Drawing, Photography, Art History, Color theory, Visual Design and Merchandising, just to mention a few, and later earning a degree in visual art from the Fashion Institute in Los Angeles.

He studied such techniques from hand building with coils and slabs, pieces composed of extruded clay, incised and carved pieces, to slump work, and slip casting, casting works from plaster molds that he have made myself, not an easy task. He have mostly worked in Stoneware and Porcelain, because of its strength and understated elegance.

Brian's works are very visual, bold statements, sometimes graphic, sometimes simple organic minimalist works created from a heavy influence of the abstract and modernist masters from years past.