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New series of affordable art launched Mar 15
It’s a departure from my usual style and is called “Particles”.The series was inspired by some reflecting on my artistic influences. My main influence is Impressionism whose practitioners played with light as if it were alive. My career has been in science and technology . The great scientist Isaac Newton it was who discovered the colour composition of light, which we now know to be even weirder, being both waves and light particles (photons).
So I’ve blended the two, science and art, and played with light as colour to come up with “Particles”
The series is a limited edition of 20 individual original pastel paintings. In order to make them affordable they’re small, in keeping with their particle status
I launched the series at the Kings Heath Art Market on Mar 15 and sold 5 of the 20!
The remainder will be available here as soon as I can get them uploaded into the catalogue
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Latest Work
Watching the world go by:
Comfortable in her own domain, curious about the comings and goings of the
neighbourhood. -
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
- Visit the Gin Vault Gas Street Birmingham B1 2DT to see my work in Birmingham Art Zone's exhibition
- I have a selection of my stranger darker works on show at Auld Omens Gallery in the renowned alternative Oasis Market Corporation Street Birmingham
- Nook Gallery Institute Road Kings Heath YELLOW exhibition until the end of March
- Red Rock Nevada Pastel Society USA YELLOW online exhibition until May 15
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".