• Ideas for you

    Problems filling a blank wall in your home? Try my Falafel and Fresh Juice to bring a slice of contemporary urban life to your living room.

    Falafel and Fresh Juice 
  • Latest Work

    Making a Connection: celebrating the unseen hands that keep the internet humming. With thanks to the two young telecoms technicians who allowed me to photograph them at work.

    This painting has been selected for entry in the Bath Open Art Prize 2024 an will be on show from October 12 to October 26 at Fringe Arts Bath 44AD artspace, BA1 1NN Bath, UK

  • A pastel painting of two young tango dancers

    Spotlight

    Pop along to this independent and very friendly gallery in Bournville

    • At the Leamington Studio Artists Gallery at 5 Satchwell Court (opposite Carluccio's) for their Discovery exhibition until October 12th

    • Visit the Gin Vault Gas Street Birmingham B1 2DT to see my work in Birmingham Art Zone's exhibition

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Meet the artist

Brian's work is unashamedly representational. 

"I seek  to keep my eyes wide open to the endless complexity of colour and light and shine it into people's lives".

Brian uses soft pastels for the the primal feeling of applying and mixing pigment with his fingers directly onto a surface. Brian also likes surprising people's concept of pastels (mostly they've only seen them being used for courtroom depictions of villains or by pavement artists).

He is largely self-taught, and has been drawing and painting for ten years. His favourite subjects are portraits and mountains.

Brian has  lived and worked in Birmingham for 40 years: his professional and academic life was in science and technology.

"My artistic voice struggles against my training of seeing the world as data to be explained factually and rationally, but it never shuts up and has to be served".