Watercolor artist Brent Flenniken was strongly influenced by the abundant light and vast spaces of the American West where he grew up. By the time he was a teenager, he was a painter, and he has never wavered from an all-consuming desire to create art. He has both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in art, taught drawing and painting at a Texas college for over twenty years, and taught international students at Mexico’s Instituto de Allende.

Flenniken most often paints highly creative and colorful landscapes, carnival scenes, and abstract compositions, and is known for embedding mythical, subliminal figures in his paintings - animals, ghosts, and angels. He has painted numerous collections of work about specific geographical locations and has created a series of paintings about the small town where he now lives, Silver City, New Mexico. His work has been widely exhibited in U.S. and Mexican Galleries and is currently displayed at Aldea Gallery and at the Tatiana Marie Gallery, both in Silver City.

Art historian and critic, Hunter Ingalls, Ph.D., Flenniken’s friend and frequent co-creator, addressed Flenniken’s work by writing, “For all their impulsiveness, Flenniken’s works are very deftly composed. The singing quality of his color doesn’t wear off; it holds and grows when you’ve got one of his works in your home, hanging there as a reminder that life is for celebrating.”

Work at Aldea Gallery includes framed originals, matted and unframed originals for people who are traveling or who want to select their own frames, prints, and cards, among them a very popular set of six of his “angel cards.”