I received an email out of the blue a few weeks ago, which contained a lovely surprise. A gentleman called Tom in County Mayo, Ireland wrote to say he had bought this drawing on Ebay in Ireland, and then having come across our website, wondered if the Graham K. Brown noted on the bottom left read more…
From original scans of the collection we have of over 20 ceramic painted tiles, all five galleries of “Painted Tiles” on the website have now been populated. These ceramic tiles were painted when Graham was focused on doing a range of geometrical pieces during the 1990′s, which included work on objet’s d’art. Two of the read more…
So it’s been very quiet here, I realise – life has been rather busy, and other activities have had to take precedence. I found the time to create another annual calendar for the family with pre-printed birthdays, which was great – and easy to do, at Vistaprint. Seeking out the colourful images, I created a read more…
I had the pleasure of having the generous assistance of Anita, a friend from choir, helping me do some artwork recording for a few hours on Monday. Anita creates multi-media artwork and has a website you can visit at http://www.anitadraper.org.uk.Anita’s fresh view, unencumbered by our family history, coupled with a bright enthusiasm, made the task read more…
Here’s an historical curiosity I’m prompted to share after watching a programme on Whistler’s painting, “The Artist’s Mother” last night. This is the first painting I did when I went to (Edinburgh) Art College in 1980 – a self portrait with Dad in the background, at the door of the house in North Devon I’d read more…
I’ve been through everything I have access to this week, so I can see the edges of the task, which has a sense of relief and completion about it. On the basis of knowing what kinds of things there are (14 kinds of artwork, 12 kinds of writings) and the rough totals of all (over read more…
One category of work which we have, is a series of more than 30 woodcarvings, all under about 35cm high. This carving, called “Lovebirds” is currently journeying back to Devon, carefully looked after in transit, I hope, by Royal Mail! It’s the anniversary of Graham and Elizabeth’s wedding on May 9th, so it seemed a read more…
‘Tis a rare thing to find a date on Dad’s work. I’ve been looking for clues to dates on all the items as I’ve been going along, so I can piece something together in terms of which decades, at least, various items were produced. From an art history point of view, it will be interesting read more…
Here’s a little timely gem of a thing I came across today: a cartoon of Margaret Thatcher, (Britain’s first woman Prime Minister) who recently passed away. See the Wikipedia entry for a biography, and a profile photograph from 1990 is on that page. This drawing is above cartoons of Neil Kinnock, Labour Party Leader and Paddy Ashdown, read more…
3rd May, Graham’s (Taurean) birthday, in 1932, remembered. In going through a box of things today, I happened across this picture. This curious egyptian-style handpainted piece came from a second hand shop in Bideford, and Dad enjoyed having it on his wall. Mum (Elizabeth) was an avid astrologer, so we were always aware of how read more…
