Work
As a poet, Brandi owes much to the Beat tradition, and to poets as diverse as Federico García Lorca and the Japanese haiku masters. As a painter, his mixed media work, often integrating words and paint, is bright with expressionist colors, while his more subtle haiga paintings draw on Asian influences. Brandi's paintings are specifically informed, as is much of his writing, by his world journeys. He was introduced to the art of traveling by his parents, who drove him through California’s diverse landscapes, gave him a box of paints, and encouraged him to sketch and write what he saw and experienced.
John Brandi’s numerous publications include poetry, travel essays, limited-edition letterpress books, hand-colored broadsides, and modern American haiku. He has lectured at the Palace of the Governors Museum, Santa Fe, at Idyllwild Arts, California, and has been a guide and lecturer for university students studying in Bali and in Mexico.
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