Andy Truscott speaks with Bryant “Tee” Bell, a 2023 DDOA Emerging Individual Artist Fellow in the field of painting.

Bell is a native of the First State who grew up in Greenwood, Delaware with his two brothers, and he was in the first graduating class of Woodbridge High School. The artist attended school in Hampton, Virginia, but received Bachelor and MBA degrees from Delaware State University, where he also took studio art classes. He worked for eight years at DSU after a long, successful career in insurance and brokerage, work that enabled him to travel throughout the US and internationally and contributed to the depth of personal perspective in his unique portraits.

As a painter, Bell consistently works to master new mediums, seeking to learn techniques and paint on a larger scale. He exhibits regularly throughout Delaware – frequently at the Mispillion Art League (Milford), at the Biggs Museum of American Art (Dover), and at Camp Rehoboth. He also works to relate music, photography, sculpture, and other mediums to his practice, and he finds that meeting new artists and viewers is especially fruitful and rewarding.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photos: “Indigenous”, “Mr. Sammy”, “The More Things Change”, Brant “Tee” Bell