Alex Brown

This is the website of the artist Alex Brown

Alex has many works for sale arranged in sections throughout the site. Please click on the portfolio link to view more works.

About Alex Brown

ALEX BROWN - ARTISTS STATEMENT

I have had a fascination with light and colour since my degree in fine art painting at Camberwell School of Art in London in 1984, and on through my career as a professional artist.

It’s not light in the dramatic sense of Dark and Light as in Rembrandt’s work, but more how light makes colours. Artists that have influenced me are Turner, Monet and Van Gogh, as well as the work of scientists such as Goethe and Steiner.

“Colours which are shadows are a result of light itself” Goethe.

I like most of all to see how different light conditions throughout the day change the colours that we see. Big Skies over the landscape, different weather conditions, how light changes from the hills and mountains over the UK to the bright strong colours of the Mediterranean.

I have realised that everything including all objects and conditions on earth act as a kind of prism, in that when light from the sun hits an object it splits up into all the wonderful colours that we see. It is this approach that informs all my work.

My approach and colour theory is called the Journey of Light. If you would like to know more about my theory please visit the section on this website called Alex Brown's colour theory.

Exhibitions

1986 South London Gallery, Group show

1987 Air Gallery - Coming Up for Air Farringdon

1988 The Wren at St James – Latter math St James

1989 The Orangery Holland Park - True to Form

1990 Smiths Gallery, Covent Garden – Group Show

1991 Battersea Arts Fair

1991 South Bank Painting Competition, Prize winner and Sold

1991 Chelsea Town Hall – Group Show

1992 Commission by LUL for 12 paintings for Circle Line Trains.

1992 Pump House Battersea Park

1993 The Oval Cricket Ground

1994 - 5 Expedition Artist Raleigh International Expedition – Malaysia Borneo

1994 Chelsea Physic Garden – Chelsea Watercolour flower paintings

1996 Atrium Gallery Whiteley’s, Bayswater

1998 – 2005 Moved to and renovated Gloucestershire Farmhouse. Built studios.

2000 – 2001 Working at Spike Island Print Workshop Bristol

2001& 2002 Group Show Spike Island Print Workshop

2002 Battersea Contemporary Arts Fair – (sell out show)

2003 Group Show Spike Island Print Workshop

2003 Fresh Art, Business Design Centre Islington

2004 Battersea Contemporary Arts Fair

2006/7 Working on new paintings and giving private tuition

2008/9 Represented by Great Atlantic Gallery, Monmouth

2008/9 Teaching life drawing and painting

2009 Taurus Crafts, Garden Room April One man show

2009 Represented by Parkfields Gallery, Ross on Wye

WORK IN COLLECTIONS

London Underground Transport Museum , Originals of prints that were on LUL trains for 6 months.

St James’s Trust, St James’s Church (Op Royal Academy)

Art for Hospitals

Private collections in the UK and USA