Painter's Block: The Collection That Broke Everything Open

For over a year, I felt stuck in a way I never expected.

Not uncreative — just unable to tap into the kind of inspiration that usually pushes my work forward. Every time I tried to start something new, it felt like I was fighting my own ideas. Nothing looked the way I imagined it, and I kept stepping back from the canvas thinking, “It’s not there yet.”

That was my painter’s block.

This collection is the moment things finally shifted.

Painter’s Block is special not because it’s the “deepest” or the most personal collection I’ve made — but because it’s the one where the levy broke. These pieces are filled with experimentation, risks, and marks I never would’ve made if I hadn’t stopped forcing the process and just let myself create again.

A lot of that shift came after losing my brother.

Grief changes the way you move, think, and express yourself, and somewhere in the middle of that pain I started to feel pulled back toward painting. Not in a grand way — just small moments where the ideas felt honest again. Those moments added up, and this collection is the result.

What’s wild is that once I broke through this block, the ideas didn’t stop.

Painter’s Block opened the door for three more collections that I’ll be dropping this month — including:

 

• The Lost Paintings Collection, which was the last set I was working on in 2024 before everything froze

• Two more collections coming later this month, all shaped by the freedom and momentum that came after breaking through

 

So while this might not be “the” collection — it’s the one that made all the others possible.

Thanks for being here, supporting my art, and allowing me to share not just the finished pieces, but the process and the comeback behind them.

New work is live now, and more is dropping soon.

— Brian / BeeSixPaints