Brian E. Bailey 1959年生于美国马萨诸塞州兰开斯特市。前纽约视觉艺术学院教授，现在在新泽西从事绘画和教书工作。他作为成功的插画师工作了数十年后，开始将精力集中在个人艺术追求上。他的粉画作品屡屡得奖，并在国内外的展览中频繁亮相，其中包括中国苏州国际粉彩双年展，俄亥俄州巴特勒美国艺术博物馆等。他的作品被多个机构及私人收藏，其中包括华盛顿国家肖像馆。

Brian E. Bailey was born in 1959 in Lancaster, Massachusetts. Formerly a professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York, he now paints and teaches privately in New Jersey. Following a successful career that spanned several decades as a noteworthy illustrator, he began to focus his energies on more personal artistic pursuits. He has won numerous awards for his work in pastel and has been featured in select exhibitions both nationally and abroad. Most recently his work was exhibited at the International Pastel Biennial in Suzhou, China, as well as several exhibitions at the Butler Museum of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio. His work is in several public and private collections including the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C.

 As an artist working in a realist tradition he tries to create singular contemporary images that speak to the fragility of both the natural world and the human condition. The stillness of his painting offers the viewer a moment of both contemplation and reflection.

  “ In my painting there is nothing I take away, nor give artifice to enhance the quiet permanence of a subject’s beauty.”