Born with a creative spirit, Brad Jones has always sought to explore, build, and understand. Inspired by his older brother, he found early joy in drawing, which led him to study drafting and architectural design. His career began there, but life took a turn, leading him into physical therapy—a path where he applied creativity in unexpected ways.

“I think I was born with the need to express and create beautiful things. As a child, I did that through dance, song, and drawing. As I matured, I used yarn, fabric, video, salves, tinctures, wine, baking, writing, and many other mediums.”

“I was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1943, and immigrated to the United States in 1952.

My interest in art began before I can remember. I have not been formally educated in art, but am totally self- taught. My inspiration comes from anything I see that interests me, photographs that I take or family members ask me to render through my eyes. Much of my work is taken from personal memory or mental images which I try to put on canvas.”

“2019 was a good year for artists, myself included. I booked 20 shows for 2020 and was revved up to have an awesome year.

And then Covid.
And the year died…
I survived.

Many of my massively talented and internationally acclaimed artist friends did not.

So I started, NoMoSA, an acronym for No More Starving Artists, where we ‘are eradicating the term ‘starving artists’ from our cultural vocabulary.”