Meet Bryce Landingham

Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Bryce Landingham. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Hi Bryce, appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?
Most of my resilience comes from the many happenstances, fortunate and unfortunate, that have happened in my life; whether it be from failed inauspicious expectations or heartbreak. Even through my mentors who have pushed words of encouragement into my kind, I consider that a big part of my resilience. A time where I can say I had a boost in my resilience probably would be a heartbreak that I experienced late 2022. I put everything into one person but after that relationship, never did I have an urge for revenge or quarrel. I simply just wanted that person back in my life. However, it just could not happen again and I practiced acceptance while getting my mind back through affirmations from the time I was with them. Through my time of that particular heartbreak, I found even more of myself. I realized how much of life I had missed, continued my artistry by expressing just about every emotion I felt on canvas, and traveled more on my own. I grounded myself with what was around me and appreciate more of what life and my own experience taught me.

Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?
My name is Bryce Landingham. I am an Atlanta based artist that concentrates on the beauty of life. As a visual artist, my aspirations come from the essences of human nature, life, and significance. My objective for each project focuses on intricate detail, sharp highlights, tonality, and the use of strong technique while using graphite pencil. When transitioning to oil and acrylic painting, I use both mediums to my advantage by allowing colors to be both contrasting and vibrant. As far as texture in painting, I utilize my brushstrokes in various motion to produce signature themes and designs for each of my subjects. Most acrylic paintings in my portfolio is usually gestural. Oil painting will be more tighter and more detailed.

The majority of my work deposits poignant expressions as well as emotional perceptions. My self portrait drawing series incorporate a wide range of emotions as I depicted the different phases of heartbreak that I endured in my mid-teens. Within my portrait entitled Cupid, my concept was fighting a tugging war between love and hate in my head which then produced a balance of tears signified in the center composition of the portrait. I feel as if my self portraits are the strongest series of drawings and I have yet to increase my own demand for a continuous series. Some other works can include blunt and inauspicious connotation such as my self portrait entitled The Darkness Within that concludes with another self portrait in the series called The Light Within. That self portrait series is a result of unfortunate experiences and failed expectations through life a sense of clarity which is what the floral background represents. The background also signifies the beauty that’s around me that I should pay close attention to. Fighting demons is also a self portrait within a series that depicts how we fight battles in our heads almost everyday.

Music is an enormous part of my artistry. I tend to use the sound of the music to my ability and create abstractions based off of what I hear. I am an old soul when it comes to music; even though I listen to a wide range of songs from all eras. I regularly listen to 70s r&b on a daily basis. Sometimes I like to use album covers as inspirations for pieces. The Darkness Within self portrait is inspired off of Marvin Gaye’s album Vulnerable with its distinguished shadows and contrast. Many of my other portraits capture different interpretations of musical artists and the aura of their soulful elegance; most of which are also based off of photographs. I use my abstract technique to give ancient and afrocentric feels for my portraits of artists such as Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. The use of color is crucial when painting from old renders of photographs because I have mainly seen black and white photos of many of the older musical artists I look to.

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
First and foremost, I believe that knowing yourself with what you can handle and work on through life is very important. If you don’t know yourself, you can find yourself in a spiral with low confidence and self esteem and possibly can be vulnerable to what society says about you. Another quality to have is integrity. Without integrity, you are not fully honest with yourself or others. Practicing integrity can go along way while on your journey through life. You can also make a very positive impact.
The last thing that I can advise is staying focused on one thing at a time. Through experience, I’ve always tended to achieve goals all at the same time while trying to do the work at the same time. Patience would be the key to this. For example, money, with however it is earned, can gradually grow to help cover the expenses for a trip. If the trip is months away, you can save $50-$100 per pay check to cover an entire cost of that trip and not having to buy everything the day of or be worked up about it.

Before we go, maybe you can tell us a bit about your parents and what you feel was the most impactful thing they did for you?
I’d say the most impactful thing that my parents did for me was not allowing me to become another version of them. They never wanted me to make the same mistakes that they did while they were my age. When I pursued more of my artistic journey, I went hard trying to reach out to galleries, exhibitions and other events. I never gave up at it, even when I received the “no’s.” That only fueled me to go even harder and become even more resilient. My parents even supported me through these times and they helped to find those artistic events to participate in. They made me realize how appreciative I was to have them.

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Genesis Trofort

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