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Peter Brown (British artist)
British painter (born )
Peter Edward Mackenzie Brown (born 28 July ) is a British Impressionist painter popularly known as "Pete the Street" from his practice of working on location in all weathers. He is best known for his depictions of street scenes and landscapes.
Biography master impressionist peterborough We're looking for our first early adopters to The Art Post subscription. You'll get four high quality postcards showcasing the artwork of four emerging artists four times a year. You can send, frame or collect. Who we are Commission an artist. The Art Post Subscription.He loves working 'in the thick of it' painting the streets of Varanasi to Toronto and closer to home in Barcelona, Paris, London and his adopted home city of Bath. He insists on working directly from the subject refusing to use photographic reference.
Life and career
Brown was born in Reading and educated at Presentation College, Reading.
He graduated in fine art from Manchester Polytechnic in He moved to Bath in , where he lives with his wife Lisa and five children, and took up painting full-time in He developed a vigorous en plein air style, and happily interacts with passers-by while at work.
Biography master impressionist peterborough in england He spent his childhood traveling the vaudeville circuit, where he gained a fondness for entertaining and a desire to succeed beyond the realm of vaudeville. In the early s, Sellers played the drums with touring jazz bands and also learned to play the banjo and ukulele. He became an official RAF concert entertainer, and between and , Sellers spent his free time performing comedy sketches and playing the drums for the other servicemen. By , he had taken part in a few moderately successful auditions, none of which had resulted in an invitation to join the BBC. Having grown impatient for stardom, Sellers chose to take matters into his own hands."Working is like being at a party. I need to be at the centre of things," he has said. "Consciously or subconsciously, what I experience finds its way onto the canvas."[1]
Brown was elected a member of the New English Art Club in , and became its President in He is also a member of the Royal Society of Portrait painters, The Royal Institute of Oil Painters, The Pastel Society and is an honorary member of the Royal Society of British Artists.
In he became the first Artist in Residence at the Savoy Hotel, London.[2][3] In he won the Prince of Wales Award for Portrait Drawing.[4]
In , Brown worked with Banksy to paint the aftermath of his street piece "Valentine's Day Mascara" in Margate. The series of paintings was featured in Banksy's solo show "Cut & Run" in Glasgow.
During the show's run, Brown traveled to Glasgow and made 14 additional paintings of the exterior of the GoMA, where the exhibition was taking place.[5]