13th September 2022 turned out to be a significant day in our family for a number of expected (and unexpected!) reasons*. For our purpose here, it was memorable for being the first day that a selection of Dad’s (Graham Kingsley Brown’s) artwork was exhibited for sale since he died 11 years ago. The time and read more…
These four little woodcarvings are abstract renditions of four animals – Owl, Swan, Elephant and Dragon. They are each up to 9.5cm high and 10cm wide, made of two types of wood, one of which is the contrasting dark wooden plinth. I don’t have exact information about when these were made, but see there are read more…
Embarrased? The family were a little, but got used to seeing this poster Graham created to keep us away from his art studio room in Bideford, of 15 years. We always remember it as it seemed so inappropriate in a house full of females – but maybe that was the purpose! His wife, Elizabeth (my read more…
To celebrate the anniversary of Dad’s birthday, allow me to tell you about the unexpected recent emergence of 2 pieces of his artwork. During a holiday in North Devon in December 2019, I arranged to meet up with Dad’s good friend Gerard at the Burton Art Gallery cafe in Bideford (a favourite haunt of Artists read more…
The atmospheric International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester was the setting for the first public showing of a work of art by Graham Kingsley Brown since his passing in 2011. The painting “The Departure” was framed and displayed to accompany the launch of the poetry book “Nothing serious, nothing dangerous” (which features the painting on read more…
Just as words need to be read or heard to carry meaning from one mind to another, so too do paintings need to be seen by another to come alive. The Artist’s act of creation is one of expressing from within, in order to have reflected back something that is, in some senses, beyond oneself. read more…
Hallelujah – it is done. A yacht may only be able to travel at a slow speed, while navigating tides and winds, but through making persistent steady progress, oceanic distances are travelled. Since last writing, through illness, whirlwhinds, obstacles, and upheavals of one kind and another, I have now completed cataloguing, scanning, photographing, or editing read more…
To remember Graham’s Birthday date today, I’m sharing this painting from my private collection: “Midsummer”. A Tuesday’s child, Graham was, indeed, “full of grace” – a quality that is exhibited in this dynamic flowing picture. The figure is elemental, dark skinned, dynamically positioned centre stage, with limbs energetically akimbo. The painting seems to embody the read more…
In celebration of having added 108 pieces of artwork to the database, I have included this new image in the website’s Cut Outs gallery. One of a short series of abstract and mythical paper “cut outs”, which Dad created, this is entitled “Calypso” – a nymph in Greek mythology. Calypso as a mythical figure is read more…
Every time I come to do something on recording Dad’s work, I’m blown away by how he managed to create what he did, with the limited time and resources he had – in so many different media. Today, I wanted to get something started for the Sculpture section, so I began by making a new read more…
