Bradley Chance Hays || Painter
Bradley Chance Hays || Painter
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Bradley Chance Hays paints from participation rather than observation. His work carries the force, rhythm, and immediacy of lived Western and equestrian experience.
Working primarily in acrylic and mixed media on canvas, as well as watercolor on paper, Hays creates equestrian compositions defined by gesture, movement, and layered surface. His paintings move between abstraction and narrative, holding the horse as both physical subject and cultural force.
His relationship to the equine form is inseparable from his life in rodeo and horsemanship. That immersion gives the work an unusual credibility. The motion in the brushwork does not feel imagined. It feels remembered: tension, release, momentum, and partnership translated into paint.
What distinguishes Hays is the union of expressive energy and cultural authenticity. His paintings are bold and immediate, yet structurally controlled, offering collectors a contemporary Western voice grounded in real-world experience.
Medium - Painting || Materials - Acrylic
Dimensions - Varies, includes large-scale paintings that translate arena rhythm into painterly form.
Works that extend the artist’s commitment to performance, authenticity, and direct making.
Hays works through a physically direct process, building surfaces through layered gesture, kinetic mark-making, and compositional adjustment. Whether on canvas or paper, his process retains the immediacy of action while preserving a disciplined sense of form and spatial impact.
These works are best experienced at scale, where their physicality and momentum can be felt fully. In person, the layered surfaces and movement-driven composition create an immersive presence. They reward collectors who respond instinctively to energy, but remain attentive to structure.
Practice rooted in professional rodeo and lived horsemanship
Distinctive bridge between Western tradition and contemporary abstraction
National exhibition exposure and alignment with major rodeo and equestrian platforms
Strong architectural presence across large-scale formats
Select bespoke commissions facilitated through the gallery
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