Alex Brown

About the artist

Alex Brown
Alex Brown
Alex Brown

Painter, Printmaker

Ruardean
Gloucestershire
United Kingdom

    Statement

     

     

     

     

     

    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.

    Biography

    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

     

     
     

     

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