Meet The Artist
Piers Browne
Piers still responds emotionally to land and seascapes. His awe for subtle light and nature’s beauty , coupled with his impatience to show it, is undimished after 35 years at it. In ’09 he completes a series of large paintings in his ‘Screwing the earth’ series, and before that, while etching and painting landscapes in response to sheer beauty, he finishes two children’s books.
He has published 5 books with etchings therein: the latest, SONNETS FOR A SIREN, is privately produced in an edition of 20, costs about three thousand pounds each – & that is almost cost!
It is launched in the Spring of ’08. There are 21 etchings in it illustrating his own 27 sonnets, a work of 5 years. His penultimate book,‘The Glorious Trees of great Britain” took 15 years.
He has shown over 20 pictures in the RA Summer Show and had over 60 One-mans, from Malibu to Munster via Wensleydale where he truly gratefully lives. He is very happy to be on this new website with other etchers.
Piers paints and etches with as much ‘ferocity’ and love as ever!
Latest major shows via many at York’s BLAKE GALLERY:
2009 Spring One man 52 Gallery, Mayfair, London THE SEA SEA (seascapes in Britain) which in September went on to the JERICHO GALLERY in Oxford
2011 One man 52 Gallery, Mayfair, London JOY IN THE AEGEAN (land & seascapes of Turkey and Greece)
2012 Jan 25 – Feb 18 One man of 70 of the best of 35 years’ small colour etchings at Highgate Contemporary Art, Highgate high St, London
Most recent projects/Work has been books:
The Glorious Trees of Gt Britain 15 year project with 20 handmade copies culminating in 2000 mass edition 4000 HRH Pr Charles foreword 2002.
Usually PB’s handmade books with etchings therein have 50 or 60 etchings, but this one had the etchings reproduced photographically as has 167 prints therein; it took 3 times longer than the other 5 books taking 15 years.
Sonnets for a Siren 5 year project - 20 handmade books bought by Bodleian and Cambridge University libraries. PB’s own 27 sonnets and 21 etchings bound into large format leather and cloth bound, silver-tooled covers.
Love in the Aegean a 2 year project, culminating in 2011 + 250 small sized,self-published books of PB’s own poems and colour pictures of east Mediterranean lands and seas, to coincide with Joy in the Aegean show in April 2011 in Mayfair, London
Some major Prizes/Awards
1974 & 1975 David Murray Landscape Prize, Royal Academy Schools, London
1986 Rank Xerox Printmaking Prize 1986 London
1987 John Player Portrait 2nd Prize National Portrait Gallery
1987 Norsk Hydro Painting Award, Darlington
1991 WHSmith Illustrated Book of the Year/joint First prize with Wordsworth book
2000 100 etchings supplied for P&O’s new liner Aurora’s ‘state rooms’
2009 Won the Artichoke (David Gluck Memorial Award) Printmaking Prize in London in the Mall galleries printmaking show
Nov 2011 Won the North of England Painters Award at the ING Discerning Eye show at the Mall Gallery, London
Nov 2011 Showed a large etching in the New English Art Club’s annual show in London