Artist's choice: a gaze inside ...

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  • Upcoming Exhibition

    This year my "Open Studio" will be at the Purple Gallery Mary Vale Road Birmingham B30 2DL

    I'll be there for the first weekend only

    September 20 and 21

    Pop along for special offers, new work and a chat about all things pastel.

    You'll also have chance to watch me paint and see how the magic happens.

  • CLOSING!!

    I am migrating this website to a new provider so you will see a new look soon. There might be an overlap when this site is still available but you can't make purchases, until I get my new site operational

  • Spotlight

    • I have works on display at the Purple Gallery. Pop along to this independent and very friendly gallery in Bournville
    • The Art Yard Cradley Heath
    • Summer Art Exhibition at University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire
    • My entry in "Art in the Heath" in the Heath Bookshop will remain on display until 18 September. It's a large study of my favourite Impressionist Painter, Sorolla
    • "VIVID" exhibition in the TBAG Gallery Kitchen Garden Café York Road Kings Heath

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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).

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

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".