Brett Stokes is known as an enigma in art circles. He is a celebrated “leanin’ tree” greeting card artist who has created his own line, “Wild, Wild West”. Brett’s paintings have a more pronounced imagery, not the cowboy art whimsically rendered for heartfelt greeting card sentiment. Brett is committed to a strong inner vision, the environment, as well as vivid Native American imagery including bold portraiture, but not excluding sociopolitical commentary and a voice for the natural world.

Brett’s family ancestry has Native American heritage from the plains of Oklahoma. “I believe when my great aunt told me as a child, as she told my father, that we were INDIAN that I am compelled to honor and respect the old ones who prayed for us, in a good way.” His focus on Native American imagery began as a child in California were the artist resides. This vision continues as conceptual paintings, mono-types and sculptures in his current body of work.

Brett’s art is a reflection of his Cherokee Heritage. Including the interrelation of man, the natural world and all his relations, resulting in the blending of mixed blood with tribal purity. Brett has worked professionally for many years both commercially and as a fine artist, including large scale murals.

Brett exhibits in many private and public gallery exhibitions, and is widely collected nationally and internationally. In 1996, the Fallbrook Village Association honored him as “Artist of the Year”. Fine galleries in Denver, Taos, Palm Desert, San Juan Capistrano, Sedona and Fallbrook represent Brett.