The Shearer

Hi Everyone,

I've just finished my latest work, “The Shearer”, which is definitely a comfort piece with warm hues and a real sense of calm about it.

I'm working on some commissions now, so this will be one of my last new paintings for a while. I still have four other works available from the last 12 or so months: Agape, The Letter, Gathering Wood and Lavender, and Nurture, so let me know if you’re interested in any of them.

Best wishes,

Bryce.

www.brycebrownart.com
+647 577 1613

Serendipity

This is a painting that I abandoned in early 2008, was part of a larger canvas and would have part of my 'Lightly on the Land' exhibition. I've had it hanging on my studio wall for the last couple of months, have had some interesting feedback with most people being quite taken with it seeing it as a finished painting. And who am I to disagree? Some of my favourite works from history are unfinished (or appear to be).

So, I have decided to make this available as it is, though it will be signed. It could be hung loose as I have it or mounted and framed.

http://www.brycebrownart.com/
+647 577 1613

Working the Field

I've painted rural scenes for the last few years now, beginning with Brothers which is in the John Deere art collection in Illinois.

I grew up around farms, my parents always had small blocks, dad and I always doing various tasks together. It's a time and place where people really form a bond I think. An environment that most New Zealanders have been lucky to be connected to in some way.

My studio is in the city, we live in the apartment upstairs, have the performing arts school two buildings down. Although we fortunately have the wonderful wetlands and estuary two minute's walk from here, I feel even more compelled to paint these pieces now!

I love the way this subject was captured by Millet, Van Gogh, Bernard, Gauguin. The shape created by a person working the land in this way is very strong yet humble. Another inspiration for this work is the fields near the Papamoa hills here in the Western Bay of Plenty, which to me look quite European with the furrows and poplar trees. I've always intended to photograph this, but never take my camera with me! But I have seen it enough times to remember what I like about it.

Working the Fields is quite an accomplishment to me. It's very New Zealand, yet it could be anywhere. Something I often set out to capture in my work, and I think in this case have achieved.

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