Peter Brown NEAC
b. 1967
Peter Brown
Peter Brown (b.1967) is a British plein-air painter of street scenes and city landscapes. Born in Reading, he studied on a foundation course at Bath College of Higher Education (1986–87) and completed a BA in Fine Art at Manchester Polytechnic in 1990 before settling in Bath in 1993.
Brown is best known for working directly from life in all weather, which earned him the nickname “Pete the Street.” He paints amid the traffic and crowds of Bath, London and other cities, refusing photographic reference and favouring vigorous, immediate mark-making.
He began exhibiting publicly in the late 1990s, with his first solo show at the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, in 2000, and has been represented by Messums since 2004; major series have focused on London, New York and Bristol. In 2006 he was the first Artist-in-Residence at The Savoy.
Elected to the New English Art Club in 1998, Brown served as its President from 2018 to 2023. He is also a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Pastel Society, and an Honorary Member of the Royal Society of British Artists.
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Lansdowne Road
£1,300
Serpentine North Gallery
£2,500
“I work entirely from life using the cities and the countryside as my subjects. I start with what tickles me, and this is likely to be a certain play of the light, weather, space and everyday life. Most of my drawings and paintings take several sittings over consecutive days and in that time I may meet police officers, dog walkers, road sweepers, residents and tourists.”