Exhibitions

Photographs 1972-2021

Peter Brown only ever uses a fixed lens and composes the image before he takes the shot. He doesn’t like cropping or excessive editing.

From 1972 to 2000 he used a Nikkorrmat camera he bought in Singapore in 1972. He switched to a Nikon FM2 with a 55 mm lens. In 2015 he changed to a Nikon D600.

They are all stamped and numbered 1/10 on reverse. The photographer will print additional images as required. Maximum 10.

So Hurry!

Peter Brown adopts the philosophy that his art is a ‘journey of discovery’ taking him to all corners of the...

Gallery hours: Tues - Fri 11- 5 pm,

Sat & Sun 12 - 5 pm during the exhibition

Among the important works still available are a terrific drawing by George Lambert of his 16 year old son Maurice wearing boxing gloves - Maurice went on to become a famous English sculptor. Another family portrait is the woodcut by Ethel Spowers whose niece Cora was the model for After Dark 1927 which is inscribed as an invitation.

There are two, almost life-size National Gallery School model drawings by Jean Sutherland.

Among the Maritime works in our exhibition are Frederick Garling's depiction of the Schooner Eclipse, which was involved in...

When I was a child my contented father showed me the mystery of painting with water-colors. It was revelatory the way in which he swished the red sable Windsor and Newton purest camel-hair or red sable brushes into a freshly rinsed Pura milk bottle and diluted my holiest colors such as Veridian Green and Alizaron Crimson and the most remarkable one of the whole spectrum - French Ultra Marine.

I sat so peacefully with him wherever I went, which was everywhere there was to go in Whittlesea, and I, at ten years of age would watch him blend in the...

"... At the end of the Soviet system the professional artists were given ownership of their apartments, and those with studios got them as well, and although they no longer had the State support, they retained the studio contents ...however, their work was completely out of fashion. The lifeline was interest from abroad. The studios were full of preparatory sketches. These immediate impressions of life by these highly trained artists were a revelation. They were certainly the basis of the interest I have maintained over the last twenty eight years of buying them." extract from "Art in Russia", John Barkes, London

An exhibition of paintings and oil sketches from Russia in association with John Barkes, London

Including works by; Faizrakhman Aminov, Sergei Baikov, Saniya Bakhtiyariva, Vladimir Damarad, Anatoli Ivasenko, Evgeni Kazmin, Valentina Kharaborina, A. M. Kor, Irena Kovaleva, Georgi Kovenchuk, Valeria Larina, Girsu Li, Nikolai Lyadovski, Konstantin Molteninov, Margarita Ruban, Vasili Rudnev, Valentina Savelieva, Petr Smukrovich, Elena Tabakova, Nikita Tsytsin, Anatoli Vasiliev, Edvard Vasiliev, Vladimir Yarkin, Boris Zaozerski

View illustrated invitation and artist list