Bob Brown HNEAC (1936 - 2023)

Statement

Bob has always painted what excites him and this is what makes him get out his brushes. Maybe this excitement is contagious and the buyer will sense that too and it will strike a chord with them. He believes that people like the vitality or energy in a painting. 

Methodology

As much as possible, Bob likes to paint on the spot, and he often uses a sketchbook. He uses his pochade box a great deal, particularly when travelling. This is a small, portable studio for painting in oil, in which he can carry up to a dozen panels. He finds it essential to have a stool. He works up some of the studies in the studio where appropriate, and may decide to enlarge or develop them in some other way. He likes to work on groups of pictures at the same time, and to have them about him, so they ‘talk’ to him and to each other. 

Bob loves structures, facades, buildings, people, water, trees and huge skies. But patterns of light and colour are what he loves to paint most. The sun reorders the world throughout the day, and gives different images, depending where the light and shadows fall.

Bio

1936 Born in London

Studied at Croydon College of Art under Fred Dubery and Lionel Bulmer.

1954 Aged 18, Bob had a still-life and a self portrait accepted for the RA Summer exhibition. 

1962 to 1968 First studio at River Road, Littlehampton. Overlooking River Arun.

1964 Elected member of the New English Art Club

1994 Elected Assistant Keeper of the N.E.A.C.

Traveled with paintbox to, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Greece, Georgia, France, Italy, Russia, US and China.

Memberships

Small Paintings Group