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See the BBC report here !

This was a portrait commission for a local Museum. I had to chose a person who was culturally important to the south west of England.I have always been an admirer of the work of Aardman and was lucky that they agreed to be the subjects.Nick Park has won much acclaim for Wallace and Gromit and David Sproxton and Peter Lord are the founders of Aardman animation as well as the producers of all the work.
I gave much thought to the whole creative process involved with the claymation techniques that Aardman is so famous for. I simplified this into three stages-
1. Idea - the story boarding and invention of the characters.
2. Creation - the modeling of the characters and sets.
3. Filming - the transformation from the unreal inanimate to the believable animate.

The final composition shows Nick Park at the first stage story boarding the unforgettable train chase scene from 'The wrong trousers', while Peter Lord creates a plasticine model of Morph, David Sproxton waits in the background along with the camera linking to the dominating Characters of Wallace and Gromit in the foreground, no longer just models but real and as alive as the creators themselves. This impossible scenario coupled with the seriously dramatic reference to Caravaggio's iconic 'Supper at Emmaus' encourages the implausible to become believable and heightens the humor of the scene.

left to right
Wallace David Sproxton Peter Lord Nick Park Gromit

","","Portrait of famous Art Historian Anthony Beeson. Recently seen on the TV show 'Time Team'.","","Selected for the SF Watercolour competition 2006.","Selected for the BP Portrait Awards exhibition 2007 at The National Portrait Gallery, London.
On show at the Scotish National Portrait Gallery until March 2008.
Comment here !","

Vincent Brown wins The Holburne Dukes Portrait Prize 2006

The winner of this year's biennial competition was announced at a reception at the Holburne Museum on Monday 30 October. The panel of judges, including the artist Sir Peter Blake, the Times art critic Rachel Campbell-Johnston, and writer and broadcaster Bel Mooney unanimously agreed the winner as The Artist's Parents (after Dix) by Vincent Brown.

Sir Peter Blake commented that the portrait was 'a beautiful and tender painting which showed great insight into the characters of the sitters.
Sir Peter felt confident that Vincent Brown would produce an interesting commission for the Holburne Museum with the £5,ooo prize.

RachelCampbell-Johnston of the Times said that she loved the 'unsparing exactitude of the portrait, its bleakness and the totemic feel of the figures' She felt that the painting also demonstrated 'great technical competence'.

Bel Mooney revealed that she was immediately drawn to the portrait as there was something touching about it which reminded her of her own parents. She said that 'looking at the figures in the painting you feel as if you are looking at a real life story of two people; in a sense it is a novel in paint'.


...taken from The Holburne Museum of Art website","Curently on show at the RWA

Winner of the Public Choice Award

at The Bath Society of Artists 2006 exhibition.
Also selected for the 2005 S/F Sunday Times Watercolour Competition at The Mall Galleries, London.
On show at the Royal West of England Academy of Arts until December 14th 2006.","This painting was selected for the 2004 BP Portrait Awards at the National Portrait Gallery. I have also been selected for the 2007 BP Portrait Awards but am awaiting an image for the site.","Exhibited at the Royal West of England Academy of Art 2006","

Winner of the Excellence in Watercolour Prize

at the Royal West of England Academy of Art until December 14th 2006.
Also selected for the 2006 S/F Times Watercolour Exhibition at The Mall Galleries, London. See exhibitions for details.","Self portrait in my studio.","

A small oil study of my father in great detail.
I was honoured to have this piece exhibited at
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters show in 2005 and then at The Royal West of England Academy of Art in the same year.

","Featured in the 2005 Hunting Art Prizes and the RWA open painting exhibition and The Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2006 exhibition!","Finaly I have produced a portrait of my own family. My wife Liana, son Keanu and baby Maddisen.","After seeing two of my paintings in the RWA Autumn show
Holly Belsher asked me to paint her in a similar style.
These works are very small and very detailed
but I have the intention to produce a large
(Chuck Close size) piece.","

This study of my father was an experiment with red and green.
Opposite colours as bold as these are tricky to work with, the colours
can clash too heavily and cancel each other out, but I was pleased
with the results.
I was greatly influenced by a study of Sir Winston Churchill by
Graham Sutherland for this one.

","I first met Mr Brian Hart while he was visiting an Artist
at my former studio in Bath.
I thought he had a lovely face, full of character.
He agreed to sit for a portrait and we have since become good friends.
This painting was selected for the 2004 autumn exhibition at the
RWA.
","Jain Wallis is one of the Artists based at my old studios in Bath.
her work is figurative portrature and figure studies along the lines of Mattise.

The oil on oak method used here is a very traditional english technique for miniture paintings.
One of a series of four paintings for the 2004 solo exhibtion at centrespace in Bristol.
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Shown at the RWA under the name 'Hnedy' (Slovak translation of Brown).","When I started out I produced portraits of famous people and sold prints. This raised enough funds for me to concentrate on more serious work.","One of four images published open edition in the USA.","This was the first painting to be exhibited at the RWA back in 1999. At first I used the name Hnedy instead of Brown?","An early illustration for a publishing brief.","Early self portrait",]; linksIMAGES = ["links/simon.jpg","links/waterlilies.jpg","links/malcolmashman.jpg","links/paulbrason.jpg","links/davidcobley.jpg","links/michaeltaylor.jpg","links/peterbrown.jpg","links/benhughes.jpg","links/alastiaradams.jpg","links/caroline.jpg"]; linksSIZES = ["Birmingham - London","Fellow Bristolian","Bath","Bath","Widcombe Studios, Bath","Dorset, UK","Bath, UK.","Bath, UK.","Unknown","Bath, UK.",]; linksTITLES = ["Simon Hennessey","Banksy","Malcolm Ashman","Paul Brason RP","David H Cobley RWA RP NEAC","Michael Taylor RP","Peter Brown NEAC","Ben Hughes","Alastair Adams","Caroline Waterlow",]; linksMEDIUMS = ["http://www.simonhennessey.co.uk/","http://www.banksy.co.uk","http://www.mxm.clara.net","http://www.paulbrason.co.uk/profile.htm","http://www.davidcobley.co.uk/","http://www.mrtaylor.co.uk","http://www.peterbrownneac.com","http://www.benhughesart.co.uk","http://www.alastairadams.co.uk","http://www.carolinewaterlow.co.uk/",]; linksPRICES = ["simhen@yahoo.com","","malcolmashman@mxm.clara.co.uk","paulb@paulbrason.co.uk","mail@davidcobley.co.uk","michael@mrtaylor.co.uk","mail@peterbrownneac.com","benhughes@onetel.net.uk","alastair@alastairadams.co.uk","mailto:carolinewaterlow@hotmail.com",]; linksINFO = ["The Artist about his work - My paintings are perceived as a reflection of reality but in truth the artwork transcends into its own abstraction of reality. Through using the camera as a visual source for painting I am able to create false illusions that are judged as our own reality.","The one and only!!","I got to know Malcolm while I was based at the Widcombe Studios, Bath.
He is a tremendous talent with an individual style and unusual imagination.
His expressive work with landscapes and portrature never cease to amaze.","Paul Brason was born in Kensington, London in 1952. After a foundation course at Hastings School of Art, he studied at Camberwell College of Art. He lives and paints in Bath, UK.","David says of this portrait -'I have been a fan of Ken Dodd since I first saw him on television as a boy. I wrote to him asking if I might paint his portrait and when he agreed I met up with him at the nearby Memorial Theatre, Frome in 1999. We met again the same year when he was performing in Weston-Super-Mare. He was very generous with his time, and allowed me backstage on both occasions. This portrait is based on a series of photographs I took of him in his dressing room at the Memorial Theatre.'","Portrait Artist.
The artist says of his work, I see this as a life-long process, involving as it does contemplation, reflection and production.","Peter Brown is a Bath based artist, an all weather painter of street scenes and landscapes of cities such as Cambridge, Oxford, Bath and London. He works in charcoal oil and pastel. Known for working directly from his subject throughout the year, he is more affectionately known as 'Pete the Street'.","Portrait and landscape artist. Featured in the 2004 Holbourne Portrait Prize.","Top notch portraits.","Drawings and sculptures of animals, birds and the human figure.",]; exhibitionsIMAGES = ["exhibitions/nick-pic-crop.jpg","exhibitions/rontedronlarge.jpg","exhibitions/artists_parents.jpg","exhibitions/narc.jpg","exhibitions/mother.jpg","exhibitions/untitled(artists-father).jpg","exhibitions/survivor.jpg","exhibitions/self-in-5-fin.jpg","exhibitions/mr_hart.jpg","exhibitions/Kid.jpg","exhibitions/study-in-red-and-green.jpg","exhibitions/knights-tour.jpg"]; exhibitionsSIZES = ["July 6th 2008","6 Dec","10th December 2006","23rd September 2006","23rd September 2006","2005","16th May 2005","Jan 2005 ","January 2005","Jan 2000","September 2004","Jan 2000",]; exhibitionsTITLES = ["Painting Aardman - The Holburne Museum of Art, Bath","The RWA autumn exhibition","The Holburne Contemporary Portrait Prize
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BATH SOCIETY OF ARTISTS WEBSITE","This was a recent project I managed with 14 year olds from Hartcliffe and Withywood.","Evening Post","THIS IS BRISTOL","","Metro","This is Bristol","Venue Magazine","This is Bristol","This is Bath",]; sculptureIMAGES = ["sculpture/gordon.jpg"]; sculptureSIZES = ["8 1/2 X 7 1/2 x 6 inches",]; sculptureTITLES = ["Gordon Brown",]; sculptureMEDIUMS = ["Oil on plaster on wood",]; sculpturePRICES = ["Private Collection",]; sculptureINFO = ["An experimental piece involving casting, sculpting and painting.",];