Reflections of Bologna and Ravenna
Acrylic & Collage
150 x 210 cms
£14000
John C. Brown
John Caldwell Brown
Scotland offers a terrain of monumental, almost mythic proportions that inspires Scottish painter John Brown’s landscape paintings, works begin as landscape and merge into abstract as they become invaded by the spirit of the place. However, he not content to stay put in a cold climate for long. Brown, is a traveler, who searches and is inspired by colourful cultures and hot climates where he can translate subjects into textural and saturated coloured canvasses.
He will sit and make drawings while traveling and on his return to his studio he will begin the process of making the paintings: Pip Palmer (2009) describes: They are built up in layers with a collage of fabric and scraps to create an underlying composition, a ‘scaffolding’ over which layers of paints are applied, then scratched back with the end of a brush, fingernails or whatever come to hand before being applied again to produce a textured, almost visceral picture surface.
Brown admires Rauschenberg and de Kooning both prime movers of New York Abstract Expressionism, acknowledging, also an empathy with Howard Hodgkin’s who works to capture the essence of his subject.
1945 Born in Scotland
1963-68 Glasgow School of Art Graduated D.A. in Drawing and Painting
One Person Exhibitions
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1970 |
Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow |
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1979 |
Moray House, Edinburgh |
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1992 |
The Torrance Gallery,Edinburgh |
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1996 |
Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh |
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Duncan R Miller Fine Arts, London |
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1976 |
Duncan R Miller Fine Arts, London |
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1998 |
Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh |
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1999 |
Duncan R Miller Fine Arts, London |
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2000 |
Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh Duncan R Miller Fine Arts, London |
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2001 |
John Davies Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold Duncan R Miller Fine Arts, London |
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2002 |
Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh |
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2003 |
John Davies Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold Richmond Hill Gallery, London |
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2004 |
The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh |
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2005 |
Duncan R Miller Fine Arts, London Richmond Hill Gallery, London |
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2006 |
The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh |
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2007 |
Duncan R Miller Fine Arts, London |
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2008 |
Duncan R Miller Fine Arts, London |
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2009 |
The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh Lemon Street Gallery, Truro |
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2010 |
Duncan R Miller Fine Arts, London Rendezvous Gallery, Aberdeen |
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2011 |
The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh Lemon Street Gallery, Truro |
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Awards |
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1967
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Royal Academy - Landscape Studentship Award |
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Royal Scottish Academy - Maclaine Watters Bronze Medal |
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1968
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Glasgow School of Art - Post Diploma Exhibition - Highly Commended |
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Royal Scottish Academy - Carnegie Travelling Scholarship |
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1969
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Travelling Scholarship to European countries |
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1970
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Royal Glasgow Institute of fine Arts - James Torrance Award |
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1993
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Society of Scottish Artists and Artists Craftsmen - Arts Club Award |
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Society of Scottish Artists and Artists Craftsmen - Scottish Provident Award |
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1994
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Heinzel Gallery Award |
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Elected Member of Visual Arts Scotland |
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2005
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Elected Member of Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour |
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Alexander Graham Murnro Award - RSW |
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2009 |
En Plein Air prize from Paisley Art Institute |
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2010 |
RSW Council Award Residency, Collioure France Charles Rennie Mackintosh Association Prestigious Print commissioned by Art in Healthcare
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Works Purchased by |
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Robert Fleming Holdings Ltd |
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Scottish Life Assurance Co. Ltd |
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John Menzies plc |
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Korean Embassy |
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Lillie Art Gallery |
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University of Edinburgh |
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British Steel |
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Dunfermline Building Society |
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Kuwait Royal Family |
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Hugh Martin & Partners |
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Royal Bank of Scotland Aida Cherfan Gallery, Beruit |
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Aberdeen Assets |
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Works in Private Collections |
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Britain, Canada, France, Lebanon, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, and the USA |
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Available Works
John C Brown RSW
Reflections of Bologna and Ravenna
Acrylic & Collage
150 x 210 cms
£14000
Golden Horizon Havana
Mixed media
167 x 183 cms
£14000
Figure on the Balcony, Branches
Acrylic & Collage
117 x 94 cms
SOLD
Memories of Anti Paxos
Acrylic and collage
32 x 30 inches
£4250
Reflecting Reds
Acrylic
122 x 93 cms
£6750
Big Blue
Acrylic & Collage
122 x 93 cms
SOLD
Yellow and Black Dialogue
Acrylic & Collage
122 x 93 cms
£6750
Triumphant Light
Acrylic & Collage
122 x 93 cms
£6750
Tangle of Sweet of Peas
Acrylic
81.5 x 76 cms
£4250
Tuscan Landscape Remembered
Acrylic
96.5 x 103 cms
SOLD
Monastic Retreat - Todi in Umbria
Acrylic
81.5 x 76 cms
£4250
Flowers Remembered
Collage & Acrylic
81 x 81 cms
£4250
In a Landscape with Black Crows
Mixed media
97 x 88 cms
£6250
Hillary's Delphiniums
Acrylic
70 x 83.5 cms
£3950
Umbrian Landscape from Todi
Acrylic
68.5 x 84 cms
SOLD
Over the Garden Wall
Collage & Acrylic
40 x 36 cms
SOLD
Tuscan Vine
Acrylic
27 x 25.5 cms
SOLD
Tuscan Hill Village
Acrylic
28 x 28 cms
£1450
San Biago from the Vineyards
Acrylic
25 x 28 cms
£1450
Rich Farmland, Tuscany
Acrylic
28 x 26 cms
SOLD
A Quiet Standstill
Collage & Acrylic
27 x 30 cms
SOLD
Patterned Tuscan Landscape
Acrylic
27 x 28.5 cms
£1450
Montalimio, Tuscany
Acrylic
28 x 29.5 cms
£1450
Lilypond Branches
Pastel & Collage
24 x 48.5 cms
£1450
Umbrian Town of Orvieto
Pastel
25 x 24 cms
£850
In an Umbrian Landscape
Pastel
25 x 24 cms
£850
Monastic Dwellings from Todi
Pastel
25 x 24 cms
£850
Farmlands from Todi, Umbria
Pastel
23 x 30 cms
£895
Umbrian Farmstead
Pastel
23 x 30 cms
£895
Cathedral of Orvieto
Pastel
23 x 30 cms
SOLD
Waterlilies and Reflections, Branches
Pastel and Collage
24 x 48.5 cms
£1450
Patchwork of Fields
Acrylic & Collage
94 x 117 cms
£6350
Cilento Charred Landscape
Acrylic & Collage
86.5 x 117 cms
Sold
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Oceans of Time
Mixed media
72 x 66 inches
SOLD
Sweet Smell of Ginger
Mixed media
66 x 72 inches
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Colonial Cuba
Mixed media
10.50 x 11 inches
SOLD
A Mixed Palette
Mixed media
30 x 32 inches
SOLD
Iona Village - Arrival
Mixed media
30 x 32 inches
SOLD
Theatrical San Lazaro
Mixed media on board
32.50 x 30 inches
SOLD
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Opera Stage Set
Mixed media on board
32.50 x 30 inches
SOLD
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Avenida Simon Bolivar
Mixed media on board
32.50 x 30 inches
SOLD
Viva Cuba
Mixed media on board
66 x 72 inches
SOLD
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Corrales Street Vendors
Mixed media on board
24 x 32 inches
SOLD
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Street Stall, Havana
Mixed media on board
10 x 10.75 inches
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Blue Balconies on Santos Suarez
Mixed media on board
34 x 46 inches
SOLD
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Centro Habana
Mixed media on board
10.50 x 11 inches
SOLD
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Setting the Scene
Mixed media on board
32 x 48 inches
SOLD
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Swings and Washing
Mixed media on board
11 x 10.50 inches
SOLD
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Grand Entrance
Mixed media on board
38 x 58 inches
SOLD
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La Guarida Washing
Mixed media on board
38 x 58 inches
SOLD
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Paladar
Oil pastel on card
12 x 12 inches
SOLD
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