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Brian has specialized in visual design versatility for over 25 years in a variety of industries including corporate advertising, print media, marketing, boutique campaigns, and retail & event design. From 2007-2014 he led the retail division Design Department of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he received multiple national awards and set new parameters in all creative facets within multiple locations and MFA expansions including product development, store design,  graphic standards and branding, and much more. As a leader in museum product development, Brian has created retail design packages for MFA partner institutions such as the Brooklyn Museum and the Brandywine River Museum, and his products have been globally purchased for resale by museums including LACMA and the National Gallery of Art. 

In addition to launching two successful sole-proprietorships- the Canvas Alley Gallery (Reading, MA) and Honeyhole Imaginative Interiors (Exeter, NH), Brian has collaborated for decades with an wide array of corporate, non-profit and private clients locally, nationally and internationally. His design work reflects a diverse range of forms including advertising, merchandise, fashion textiles, consumables, literature, logo, illustration and environmental graphics and has been seen in Newsweek, USA Today and The Boston Globe. Locally he has collaborated with many of Boston’s most recognized brands such as Showcase Cinemas, the Boston Red Sox, the New England Patriots, and the Boston Beer Works.

 As a traditional painter, Brian has been a regular exhibitor in Boston’s fine art community since 2002 and is a member of  the Oil Painters of America, the Copley Society of Art (CA), and the Rockport Art Association, three of the most prestigious art associations in the United States. His work has been featured on the cover of  Studio Visit, garnered numerous awards, been exhibited in multiple museums, and has been purchased for a variety of private and corporate collections. Experienced in gallery ownership, Brian opened the Canvas Alley Gallery in Reading, Massachusetts in 2004 and in 2015 he and his wife opened Honeyhole in Exeter, New Hampshire, a combination fine art and upcycled antiques gallery. He holds a BFA in illustration from Syracuse University and has completed postgraduate work in design at Montserrat College of Art and in painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 

Brian’s contemporary  mixed media work is a blend of his disciplines in illustration, design, and painting. His new media work at times adheres to classic painterly techniques, but often manifests as complex mixed media illustrative  compositions, highlighted with text elements, photography, writing, found objects, animation, and similar experimental homogenization.  He  is a member of the National Association of Digital Artists and his work has been seen across a spectrum of print and online media and galleries.

Brian is a Certified welder and enjoys found-metal sculpting, working with wood and cement, and  truffling for pigments for hand-making paints,  stains, and patinas. He moonlights in the yard as a stonemason, landscape gardener, and dog wrangler. He is currently working on his  illustrated novel, Life in the Tree.