Brad Kunkle

Brad Kunkle is known for his unique use of gold and silver leaf in contemporary oil painting.  His themes explore the shedding of dogmas inherited from previous generations, intuition, and the power of feminine energies as guides for seeking enlightenment in symbiosis with the natural world. 

 

Brad was born in rural Pennsylvania and spent his younger years exploring and romanticizing the beauty of the sparse countryside and the deep forests around him. From an early age, he was drawn to the worlds of Maxfield Parrish and the Pre-Raphaelites — worlds, he says, "where a subtle, supernatural beauty seems to be hiding under the breath of women — worlds where something beyond our natural perception is waiting to be found.”