The Art of Bryan de Roo

Bryan de Roo : Artwork

Below are the latest paintings and a few older ones that seem related to my current work.
Send an email if you like the work: bryanderoo@me.com

Thanks for looking.

Oil on canvas, 48x60 inches, 2020
Reduced to pixels
Something frightened hangs back in the darkness
Gods of land and sea
Mass hysteria
A lot of talk about bodies

Oil on canvas, 36x40 inches, 2020
Wildfires
City of angels
The land of the bleeding rifle
Gold necklace crucifix
We murder to dissect

Oil on canvas, 12x16 inches, 2020
Pyramid

Oil on canvas, 30x40 inches, 2020
Eyes burnt eternal
Graven image
Wild cucumber vines bearing strange prickly fruits
Silent
Deeply held fear of God

Oil on canvas, 30x40 inches, 2020
Human error
Dark psychic forces
Mediatrix between the two divine worlds
A waking dream

Oil on canvas, 48x48 inches, 2020
Blue surround
Seven pointed stars
Elongated torso
She was a god in disguise
Destroying angel exterminating angel

Oil on linen, 18x24 inches, 2020
Pigment is stronger than flesh

Oil on canvas, 48x60 inches, 2020
The voices in your head
World of echo
Dreaming in the age of pandemic
A serpentine master

Oil on canvas, 36x60 inches, 2020
Fossilized prophesy
A wound and a blade
Input chaos output chaos
She has obsidian in her blood

Oil on canvas, 44.5x72 inches, 2020
Unformed
The inner scar
Half devil, half child
Moon in scorpio

Oil on canvas, 48x60 inches, 2020
Sun washed sky
Gate of flesh
Darkness of imagination
Self injury
Proof of life
The taste of metal

Oil on wood, 16x20 inches, 2020
Hand knotted
Wormwood
It thinks its alive
Pierce me through
A murmuration of bodies

Oil on canvas, 48x60 inches, 2018-2020
Somebody down by the waterline
Because the earth rotates on dead bodies

Oil on canvas, 48x60 inches, 2020
Clay tongue
Matter imbued with emotion
A grand unified theory
Witchcraft
An oath of vengeance

Oil on canvas, 24.5x29.5 inches, 2019
A grand bas-relief
Behind the black lines
Sell your soul
Shes going back under the knife
Torchlit light

Oil on canvas, 72x72 inches, 2019
Apotheosis
The still soft eternity
The corner of a triangle as myth
Drunk with time
Through-line
And occasional magic

Oil on Canvas, 38x50 inches, 2019
Mortal eyes
The hanging claw
Exit the face
Im a thing of shreds and patches

Oil on Linen, 12x16 inches, 2019
Like diamonds in the sky
I worry about void
Silt, soot and smut
Slit my wrists

Oil on wood, 16x20 inches, 2018
Just a piece of the relentless
Commonly known as face blindness
Dark entries
Wont you live for me

Oil on Linen, 22x27 inches, 2018
Quiet skies
The concrete coat has come off

Oil on Canvas, 30x40 inches, 2018
Blue lines
Blue dreams
Blue heights

Oil on Canvas, 30x40 inches, 2018
Beauty marks
A pack of smokes
The echo chamber
Swamp chronicles
She was good with wasps

Oil on Canvas, 48x60 inches, 2018
This and all subsequent daggers
Ignored prayers
Translucent smoke grey shadow
Negotiating power inequities
Not a soul between you and the horizon
Old poison in new bottles

Oil on Canvas, 48x60 inches, 2018
Cold hit
The washing away of wrongs
Lioness
Union of the plants
Double bind
A symptom of line noise

Oil on Canvas, 48x60 inches, 2018
The disrobing
The blood beneath the mud
Under bone
A layer of skin glue
Articles of war
Made to burn
At the golden dawn

Oil on Canvas, 48x60 inches, 2018
Bite wing X ray
Yellow sting ray
Somebody down by the waterline
Because the earth rotates on dead bodies

Oil on Canvas, 16x20 inches, 2018
Shattered space
Ashes and embryos
Crows are cranks
Wound tight like a spool of barbed wire

Oil on Canvas, 16x20 inches, 2018
The universe chirped today
An echo of two black holes fucking

Oil on Canvas, 22x24 inches, 2018
Kiss the incandescent
Hold your lips there
Until the skin is ready to peel
Bleed

Oil on Canvas, 30x36 inches, 2017-2018
Black noise
Vague witness marks
Tedious and brief
The sickness unto death

Oil on Canvas, 36x40 inches, 2017-2018
The site of the passion play
Beyond the starry canopy
A contrite and humble heart
A face without eyes
A throttling fist
A good dream gone bad

Oil on Canvas, 44x52 inches, 2017
Monochrome mounds of rubble
Soldier at night
Ideomotor movements
Cutting back the growing wilderness
Lateral oppression
No one can hear you scream

Oil on Canvas, 36x40 inches, 2017
Solar totality
Burnt black sage
A good dream gone bad
Overslept
Turmoil calls
Empress Josephine decapitated

Oil on Canvas, 36x48 inches, 2017
Unmasking
A new art for an unknown life
Maintain my fantasy
Reality winner
Idiot sitter
Does it say peril or devil

Oil on Canvas, 15x21 inches, 2017
Inverted

Oil on Canvas, 34x48 inches, 2017
New age pathos
In the heat of the morning
The sun will come up and the knives will come out
In pursuit of the chimera
Control is an illusion strictly enforced

Oil on Canvas, 30x40 inches, 2017
Melania’s got a brand new bag

Oil on Canvas, 30x40 inches, 2017
Neon demon
Misdirection
I thought she knew where the bodies were buried
My diamonds like the ocean
Is life not a mere maze

Oil on linen, 20x24 inches, 2016
Son of the morning
Ruled by the planets
All that black is besides being a color
A brutal inflection point
Naked in nature
Ghost ship aflame

Oil on linen, 18x24 inches, 2016
Consider the lily
Wild dreams
Standing rock
Clear water
The nature scene
Right now babe
Did I tell you about the time I pissed off pure evil
Featuring ghost poet
She shines in endless day
Defying the wet velvet heat