Briney, Stanley

Since early childhood, Briney has been involved with various forms of art for personal enjoyment and for experiencing the enjoyment others have received from it. Today, his art work is found coast to coast in the U.S. Specifically, it is in homes, offices, schools and university, private art collections, books and commercial printing. The work has been in several galleries at various times in Texas and Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Briney has had no art training whatsoever and is totally self-taught (trial and error). Although he has enjoyed creating art pieces most all his life, it was curtailed during his professional career of 31 years as a physician with both academic and clinical work in the specialty field of Radiology. Since his retirement from medicine in 1995, Briney's time has been spent with cattle ranching, art, and free-lance writing and publishing fiction. While involved in raising and breeding Texas Longhorn cattle for 20 years, he developed many close friendships with individuals and pro-rodeo participants including clown and bull fighter, George Doak, a Hall of Fame inductee in the class of 2000. They were close friends for years and after suffering a spinal fracture when butted by a bull at the Fort Worth Stock Show Rodeo, George was subject to Briney's diagnosis of his injuries while in the hospital the following day. With his special interest in Rodeo Clowns and rodeos since childhood, it was only natural that his art work became involved with these fearless funnymen.